The entrepreneur in rule-based economics : theory, empirical practice, and policy design / Georg D. Blind.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blind, Georg D., author.

Series:

Economic complexity and evolution

Economic complexity and evolution, 2199-3173

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Entrepreneurship--Economic aspects--Japan.

Entrepreneurship.

New business enterprises--Japan.

New business enterprises.

Economic conditions.

Entrepreneurship--Economic aspects.

Japan.

Japan--Economic conditions--21st century.

Economic history.

Physical Description:

xx, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]

Summary:

This volume brings together three areas of interest: the rule-based approach, the entrepreneur, and Japan as an empirical application. It highlights the advantages of the rule-based approach for economic analysis by linking different methodological underpinnings. Using these, the author exemplifies how rule-based economics allows a systematic analysis of the entrepreneur as the key figure in bringing about economic change and diversity. The book includes an empirical methodology for applied research in rule-based economics, which it puts to the test in an empirical study of entrepreneurship in contemporary Japan. The choice of entrepreneurship and Japan showcases the integrative power that rule-based economics brings to further breaking a theoretical deadlock and to analytically capturing a very particular economy investigated very little so far. By offering a body of new and original research, the monograph shows how the idea of entrepreneurship as a rule helps to resolve the Schumpeter-Kirzner divide and to develop an empirical approach to the determinants of entrepreneurial activity.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I A Theory of Entrepreneurship Through the Rule-Based Approach

The rule-based approach in the analysis of economic change

The rule-based economy and the function of the entrepreneur

The entrepreneurial process in terms of rules

Part II The Rule-Based Approach in Empirics: A Methodological Sketch

Construction of empirical models: the system of factor rules (SFR)

Changing and meta-stable sub-systems (CSS and MSSS)

Analysis of the CSS: Developing and testing of hypotheses

The RBA methodology in practice: An exemplar

Part III Entrepreneurship in Japan: 1992-2012

Assembling the model: The system of factor rules (SFR)

Reducing the model: extracting the changing sub-system (CSS)

Putting the model to work

Analysis of changing sub-system

Interpretation of findings

Part IV Conclusion

Summary of findings and research outlook

Policy implications

The RBA in empirical practice: effective tool for theory building.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783319627786

3319627783

OCLC:

989966534