1st Edition

Entrepreneurship and Economic Progress

By Randall Holcombe Copyright 2007
220 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Entrepreneurship is the engine of economic progress, but mainstream economic models of economic growth tend to leave out the entrepreneurial elements of the economy. This new book from Randall Holcombe begins by identifying areas in which evolutionary and Austrian approaches differ from the academic mainstream literature on economic growth, before moving on to distinguish growth from... Read more

1. Progress and Entrepreneurship  2. Growth versus Progress  3. Management versus Entrepreneurship  4. Equilibrium versus the Invisible Hand  5. Entrepreneurship and Knowledge  6. The Origins of Entrepreneurial Opportunities  7. Markets, Entrepreneurship and Progress  8. Institutions and Entrepreneurship  9. National Income Accounting and Public Policy  10. The Political Environment and Entrepreneurship  11. Conclusion

Biography

Randall G. Holcombe is DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University, USA.