Introduction -- Entrepreneurship, its origins and recent experience -- Overview of the global aviation industry 1903 to 1945 -- Entrepreneurial aviators -- The earliest days in the United States : the Wright brothers, Glenn H. Curtiss, Allan Lockheed and Glenn L. Martin -- The French connection...

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The creation of a system -- The functioning of a system -- A local-level analysis of an opium district : Saran -- The costs and benefits of poppy cultivation -- The mechanics of a system : incentives, coercion and dependence.