1st Edition
Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
By David A Harper
Copyright 2003
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
David A. Harper is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, New York University, USA
