Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

ISBN-13: 9780415153423 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 292 str.

David A. Harper; A. Harper David

Opis

Entrepreneurship is a key factor in economic development. It determines how quickly and accurately an economic system identifies and responds to the profit opportunities inherent in disequilibrium situations. This book dealswith entrepreneurship in all its aspects. It considers the economic, psychological, political, legal and cultural dimensions of entrepreneurship from a market-process perspective. David A Harper has produced a volume that analyses why some people are quicker than others in discovering profit opportunities. Importantly, the book also covers the issue of how cultural value systems orient entrepreneurial vision and in contrast to conventional wisdom, the book argues that individualist cultural values are not categorically superior to group oriented values in terms of their consequences for entrepreneurial discovery. This volume should be of interest to development and market economists as well as their students. The policy implications for economic institutions that Harper concludes with will also make the book useful reading for those working in the public sector.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. The Theory of Entrepreneurial Discovery 3. Psychological Determinants of Entrepreneurial Alertness 4. Institutions I: Rule of Law, Property and Contract 5. Institutions II: Money, Political and Legal Decentralisation and Freedom 6. Cultures and Alertness 7. The Market-Process Approach to Public Policy 8. Empirical Testing and Conceptual Development 9. Concluding Remarks

O autorze

David A. Harper is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, New York University, USA