The Vital Few: The Entrepreneur and American Economic Progress

by Jonathan R.T. Hughes

Book Overview

The Vital Few, a study of the contribution of entrepreneurs to the American economy, provides portraits of the men and women whose individual enterprise has helped to establish the character of the American businessperson and to carry our economy forward from colonial times. Examining such legendary figures as William Penn, Eli Whitney, Henry Ford, and J. Pierpont Morgan in their social and economic environment, Jonathan Hughes illuminates each period...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195040384
• ISBN13: 9780195040388
• Release Date: June 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"