The entrepreneur : the economic function of free entreprise / Sophie Boutillier, Dimitri Uzunidis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boutillier, Sophie, author.

Uzunidis, Dimitri, author.

Series:

Smart innovation (Series) ; 8.

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Smart Innovation Set ; 8

THEi Wiley ebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Entrepreneurship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England ; Hoboken, New Jersey : ISTE : Wiley, 2016.

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Summary:

This book presents the economic theories with regards to the entrepreneur of yesterday and those of more recent years, on which issue research has been developing exponentially since the last third of the 20th Century. Much of this book will be devoted to contemporary theories. This presentation of economic theories of the entrepreneur leads us to wonder about the structural development of the free enterprise system in the short and the long term. The proliferation of entrepreneurial initiatives leads in effect to a profound transformation of modes of production and work, for example under the current phenomenon of uberization economy.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 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

ch. 2 Quantifying Entrepreneurship, Understanding the Entrepreneurial Role

2.1. Basic principles: the OECD's model

2.2. The main entrepreneurship indicators

2.2.1. 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

ch. 3 Classical Economics of the Entrepreneur

3.1. Richard Cantillon: an economic agent with uncertain income

3.2. Anne Robert Jacques Turgot: the "progress" of the capitalist entrepreneur

3.3. Francois 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 Leon Walrus's ghost entrepreneur

3.10. Alfred Marshall, division of industry into entrepreneurial and managerial businesses

3.11. Werner Sombart and Mux 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?

ch. 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

4.8. Towards an evolutionist theory of the entrepreneur, or the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship

ch. 5 Towards a Socioeconomics of the Entrepreneur: An Overview

5.1. The 13 keywords of the economics of the entrepreneur

5.2. On the entrepreneur's personality: the player and the system

5.3. Resource potential and the social integration of the entrepreneur

5.4. Overall picture of the theory of the entrepreneur.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119378907

1119378907

9781119378945

111937894X

9781119378778

111937877X

OCLC:

969901491