Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Informationen zum Autor David A. Harper is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, New York University, USA Klappentext This well-written book is the first to deal with 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. Zusammenfassung This well-written book is the first to deal with entrepreneurship in all its aspects. It considers the economic, psychological, political, legal and cultural dimensions of entrepreneurship from a market-process perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: David Harper, David A Harper, David A. Harper, A. Harper David
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.03.2003
• EAN: 9780415153423
• ISBN: 978-0-415-15342-3
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 238 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy; Foundations of the Market Econ; Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups