Enterprise and secular change : readings in economic history / Edited for the American Economic Association and the Economic History Association by Frederic C. Lane, editor [and] Jelle C. Riemersma, assistant editor.

The historical development of the enterprise / Gustav Schmoller -- Medieval and modern commercial enterprise / Werner Sombart -- Small and great merchants in the Italian cities of the Renaissance / Gino Luzzatto -- The culture of the Medieval Italian merchant / Armando Sapori -- Capitalism - concepts and history / N.S.B. Gras -- The commercial revolution of the thirteenth century / Raymond De Roover -- Family partnerships and joint ventures in the Venetian Republic / Frederic C. Lane -- Origins of the American Business corporation / Oscar Hanlin and Mary F. Handlin -- The growth in the relative importance of the large corporation in American economic life / Gardiner C. Means -- Railroads as a economic force in American development / Leland H. Jenks -- An approach to the study of entrepreneurship / Arthur H. Cole -- The role of money in economic history / Wesley C. Mitchell -- Natural and money economy, as illustrated from Swedish history in the sixteenth century / Eli F. Heckscher -- The theory of imaginary money from Charlemagne to the French revolution / Luigi Einaudi -- The origins of banking: The primitive bank of deposit, 1200-1600 / Abbott Payson Usher -- Prices and industrial captalism in France and England, 1540-1640 / John U. Nef -- Profit inflation and the industrial revolution / Earl J. Hamilton -- Treasure and trade balances: The mercntilist problem / Charles Wilson -- The Bank of England in the eighteenth century / Sir John Clapham -- Ricardo and the Bullion report / Norman J. Silberling -- The crisis of the Gold Standard / John H. Williams -- The task of economic history / Edwin F. Gay -- Economic history as a discipline / Sir John Clapham -- A plea for theory in economic history / Eli F. Heckscher -- Introduction to Arthru Spiethoff -- Pure theory and economic Gestalt theory: Ideal types and real types / Arthur Spiethoff -- Introduction to Francois Simiand -- Casual interpretation and historical research / Francois Simiand -- Introduction to Marc Bloch -- Toward a comparative history of European societies / Marc Block.