The Business Entrepreneur in a Changing Colonial Economy, 1763–1795

Robert A. East

The Journal of Economic History, 1946, vol. 6, issue S1, 16-27

Abstract: To study the role of the entrepreneur is to study the personal factor in economic history, to introduce the problem of what today is called the businessman. Unfortunately, or fortunately as the case may be, the expression “businessmap” was apparently not used in late colonial times, although “going into business” or “going into merchandising” was. The distinction is important; the colonial economy was far too general, and its participants too many-sided, to permit the assumption that there was a colonial man of business in the modern business sense.

Date: 1946
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