caa a22 4500 388069643 CHVBK 20180307125144.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022050700023536 doi S0022050700023536 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022050700023536 Nicholas Tom British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Economic History Department, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. E-mail: t.nicholas@lse.ac.uk. Clogs to Clogs in Three Generations? Explaining Entrepreneurial Performance in Britain Since 1850 [Elektronische Daten] [Tom Nicholas] Research into sculture and entrepreneurship in Britain has been dominated by casual empiricism. This article shows the benefits of using a new method. Lifetime wealth accumulation is specified as a measure of entrepreneurial performance, and applied to data collected from dictionaries of business biography. Industry, region, and religious dissent are ruled out as explanations of entrepreneurial performance. Education and entrepreneurial type are the important predictors. Firm inheritors and those receiving a high-status education experienced relatively low lifetime rates of wealth accumulation. Firm founders, managers, and individuals with a lower-status education were comparatively successful. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1999 The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/3(1999-09), 688-713 0022-0507 59:3<688 1999 59 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700023536 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700023536 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Nicholas Tom British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Economic History Department, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. E-mail: t.nicholas@lse.ac.uk NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/3(1999-09), 688-713 0022-0507 59:3<688 1999 59 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge