Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance: Samuel P. Black, Jr. and the Rise of Erie Insurance, 1923-1961Routledge, 2019 M09 30 - 304 páginas Entrepreneurs play a central role in economic growth and development, but how they do so is the subject of considerable debate. This book explains that process through an historical case study of an automobile insurance entrepreneur, Samuel P. Black, Jr., and Erie Insurance, the company he helped build. It also recounts the largely untold history of American automobile insurance. |
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... manufacture concerned, which need by no means be founded upon a discovery scientifically new, and can also exist in a new way of handling a commodity commercially. (3) The opening of a new market, that is a market into which the ...
... manufacturers produced and sold approximately 5 185 billion worth of motor vehicles and car bodies in the U.S. As the figures suggest and as most drivers know , automobile insurance is a costly proposition . Indeed , in some areas of ...
... manufacturer ) , Jean - Baptiste Say ( 1767-1832 ) , redefined the entrepreneur . According to Say this economic agent : unites all means of production — the labor of the one , capital or land of the others -- and who finds in the value ...
... manufacture concerned , which need by no means be founded upon a discovery scientifically new , and can also exist in a new way of handling a commodity commercially . ( 3 ) The opening of a new market , that is a market into which the ...
... manufacturing of an existing product . This entrepreneur was able to buy supplies at the same prices as the other established and less efficient firms and was able to sell near the price the older firms charged . But , the cost of ...
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Getting Ahead | 59 |
The Romance of Claims | 81 |
Push This Thing Along The Rise of Erie Insurance | 99 |
The Challenge of the Depression | 127 |
Adversity and Innovation | 163 |
Sales World War II and Managing the Northwest Territories | 197 |
Underwriting And Problems of Growth | 231 |
Questions of Strategy and Rewards | 265 |
Epilogue Samuel P Black Jr Entrepreneurship and Erie Insurance 19611997 | 305 |
Bibliography | 319 |
Appendices | 335 |
Index | 349 |
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance: Samuel P. Black, Jr ... Samuel Patton Black,John Paul Rossi Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
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