Dragons - Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain

The inspiring stories of ten great British entrepreneurs from the Elizabethan age to the present - how their genius made Britain great and shaped the global marketplace.

Info autore

The Rt. Hon. Liam Byrne MP chairs the Global Parliamentary Network on the World Bank & International Monetary Fund and sits on the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee. He served in the Cabinet in 10 Downing Street and Her Majesty’s Treasury. An Honorary Professor of Social Science at the University of Birmingham, Liam was a Fulbright scholar at the Harvard Business School and Gwilym Gibbon Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He has represented Birmingham Hodge Hill, the most income-deprived community in Britain, for the last 19 years and is the author of a major history of British capitalism Dragons: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain.

Riassunto

The inspiring stories of ten great British entrepreneurs from the Elizabethan age to the present - how their genius made Britain great and shaped the global marketplace.

Testo aggiuntivo

Written with infectious enthusiasm, Dragons brings to new perspectives on Britain's entrepreneurs. Economic history needs such a fresh and original approach' Sir Roderick Floud, co-editor, Cambridge Economic History.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Liam Byrne, Byrne Liam
• Editore: Head of Zeus
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781781857496
• ISBN: 978-1-78185-749-6
• Pagine: 496
• Dimensioni: 131 mm x 201 mm x 36 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica; Biography: general, Biography: business & industry, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Biography: business and industry, Non Fiction, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups