
How Business Started
On Freedom, Law and Liberal-Mindedness. Three Essays on Economic History and Entrepreneurship
Peter Seidler(Author)
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1st Edition
Published on 19. April 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
164 pages
978-3-8482-7442-0 (ISBN)
Description
The three essays are the result of my research into the origins of economic thought and entrepreneurship. In undertaking this work, I found out more about the role economic action - in which I have taken an active part since fifty years - plays in determining the prosperity of a society. I was moved by four questions, in particular:
- Why is property a necessity?
- Skills and emancipation of individuals
- Behaviour and organisation of groups
- How can socialism work?
Action should be influenced by ethical foundations of economics und business. Important principles include responsibility, efficiency and subsidiarity. Coupled with the principle of freedom and the pursuit of technical progress, their implementation can lead a competing community to great prosperity, which then helps to solve the social problem of underprivileged minorities through self-help.
The book begins by investigating the spiritual and economic conditions that paved the way for the industrial revolution in the High Middle Ages. The next section demonstrates that no wealth can be achieved without legal certainty. This is followed by an account of the agricultural region of Catalonia at the Mediterranean foot of the Pyrenees, which opened up to the world around the year 1000 and proceeded to gain a modest degree of prosperity. An economy that spanned Christianity and Islam shows signs of globalisation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Norderstedt
Germany
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 120 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8482-7442-0 (9783848274420)
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How Business Started
On Freedom, Law and Liberal-Mindedness. Three Essays on Economic History and Entrepreneurship
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Peter Seidler (*1936 in Hamburg) war mittelständischer Unternehmer in der EU. Er studierte physikalische Chemie in Karlsruhe, Lausanne und an der Sorbonne. Die Dissertation am CNRS hatte semi-permeable Membranen als Thema. Unternehmensführung am INSEAD und Wirtschaftsphilosophie an der FernUni in Hagen. 1963 übernahm er die Geschäftsführung des vom Großvater 1900 gegründeten Betriebes für chemische Werkstoffe. Er rief ein Intern. Kolloquium für Industrieböden an der TAE Technische Akademie Esslingen ins Leben und publizierte mehrere Fachbücher, sowie "Wie das Wirtschaften begann - Über Freiheit, Recht und Weltoffenheit - Drei Essays zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte".
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