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The entrepreneur : the economic function of free enterprise /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Boutillier, Sophie (Autor), Uzunidis, Dimitri (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, UK : Hoboken, NJ : ISTE, Ltd ; John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
Colección:Smart innovation (Series) ; volume 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. From Term to Concept: the Entrepreneur and his Economic Function; 1.1. Etymological and conceptual bases of the entrepreneur; 1.2. The gradual recognition of the role of entrepreneurship; 1.3. From a society of salary-earners to one of entrepreneurs?; 1.4. Current definitions of entrepreneurship, or the institutional recognition of the entrepreneur; 1.5. The plural entrepreneur; 2. Quantifying Entrepreneurship, Understanding the Entrepreneurial Role; 2.1. Basic principles: the OECD's model.
  • 2.2. The main entrepreneurship indicators2.2.1. Eurostat indicators; 2.2.2. OECD and Eurostat indicators; 2.2.3. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor indicators; 2.2.4. World Bank indicators and the business climate; 2.2.5. The official quantification of business creation in France: the Business Creation Observatory; 2.3. The European Union's inclusive policy to promote entrepreneurship; 2.4. Supporting entrepreneurship in developing countries: the ambitions of the United Nations (UN) and the United States; 3. Classical Economics of the Entrepreneur.
  • 3.1. Richard Cantillon: an economic agent with uncertain income3.2. Anne Robert Jacques Turgot: the "progress" of the capitalist entrepreneur; 3.3. François Quesnay, the manufacturing and commercial entrepreneur belongs to the sterile class; 3.4. Pietro Verri and Cesare Beccaria, the inspiration for Jean- Baptiste Say?; 3.5. Adam Smith: sympathy for initiative, but distrust of project creators; 3.6. Jean-Baptiste Say: intermediary between scholar and laborer; 3.7. Karl Marx, entrepreneur or officer of capital.
  • 3.8. Jean-Gustave Courcelle Seneuil, economist-entrepreneur or entrepreneur-economist?3.9. The marginalists' faux pas or Léon Walras's ghost entrepreneur; 3.10. Alfred Marshall, division of industry into entrepreneurial and managerial businesses; 3.11. Werner Sombart and Max Weber, the entrepreneur or the spirit of capitalism; 3.12. Joseph A. Schumpeter: the entrepreneur's "new combinations of production factors"; 3.13. John Maynard Keynes: the animal spirit of the entrepreneur; 3.14. From uncertainty to ignorance: Ludwig von Mises, Franck Knight and Friedrich Hayek.
  • 3.15. Creating or detecting opportunities?4. Contemporary Theories of the Entrepreneur; 4.1. From entrepreneur to industrial economy; 4.2. Ronald Coase, or the entrepreneur on the frontier of industrial economics; 4.3. William Baumol, the entrepreneur and the Prince of Denmark; 4.4. Mark Casson: entrepreneurship
  • an alternative to employment?; 4.5. Scott Shane or the genetic theory of the entrepreneur; 4.6. Entrepreneur, innovation, territory and social networks; 4.7. Mark Granovetter
  • from social integration to weighted networks.