Podnikání v českých zemích - Od pražského groše po akciové společnosti – Popelka Petr (2025)

Where did the world of business and economics, as we know it today, come from? In the post-revolutionary 1990s, the interwar 'golden age', during the time of Franz Joseph symbolized by a multitude of smoking factory chimneys, or perhaps even earlier? The book offers a fresh perspective on the history of business, and especially on its main actors – entrepreneurs, in a broadly conceived synthesis from the early Middle Ages to the turn of the second and third millennia. The authors map the history of business from its medieval forms through the first manufactories to entrepreneurial nobility or Jewish entrepreneurs and tell the stories of famous companies such as Baťa, Petrof, or Odkolek. They also address the historical roots of various forms of business, such as joint-stock companies, the phenomenon of family business, or the beginnings of modern management. The social contexts of business are not overlooked, such as the relationship between entrepreneurs and the working class, women's entrepreneurship, or economic nationalism. In a reversed perspective, the book also focuses on the image of the entrepreneur in the public space – how they are perceived by art or the media. The synthesis of the history of business and entrepreneurs was prepared by a team of respected historians from university institutions in the Czech...