The political economy of entrepreneurship

Political economy has been at the core of entrepreneurship research since its conception. Although the entrepreneur is frequently regarded as the key figure in the capitalist system, academic research in economics has for a long time overlooked the entrepreneur in its analyses of growth. In terms of...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Other Authors: Henrekson, Magnus., Douhan, Robin.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2008.
Series:International library of entrepreneurship ; 11.
Elgar reference collection.
Subjects:
Entrepreneurship.
Electronic books.
Online Access:https://www.elgaronline.com/view/Research_Reviews/9781845421878/9781845421878.xml
Table of Contents:
  • Recommended readings (Machine generated): William J. Baumol (2002), 'Independent Innovation in History: Productive Entrepreneurship and the Rule of Law', in The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism, Chapter 5, Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 55-72, references 3
  • Joseph A. Schumpeter ([1942] 1950), 'Crumbling Walls', in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Chapter XII, London: Allen & Unwin, 131-42
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  • Israel M. Kirzner (1985), 'The Primacy of Entrepreneurial Discovery', in Discovery and the Capitalist Process, Chapter 2, Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 15-39, notes 40
  • Tony Fu-Lai Yu (2001), 'An Entrepreneurial Perspective of Institutional Change', Constitutional Political Economy, 12 (3), September, 217-36
  • Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (2006), 'De Facto Political Power and Institutional Persistence', American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 96 (2), May, 325-30
  • Bruce L. Benson (2004), 'Opportunities Forgone: The Unmeasurable Costs of Regulation', Journal of Private Enterprise, XIX (2), Spring, 1-25
  • Magnus Henrekson and Ulf Jakobsson (2001), 'Where Schumpeter was Nearly Right - The Swedish Model and Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy', Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 11, 331-58
  • Hernando de Soto (2000), 'The Mystery of Capital', in The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, Chapter 3, New York, NY: Basic Books, 39-67, notes 147
  • Simon Johnson, John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff (2002), 'Property Rights and Finance', American Economic Review, 92 (5), December, 1335-56
  • Francisco M. Gonzalez (2005), 'Insecure Property and Technological Backwardness', Economic Journal, 115 (505), July, 703-21
  • Wei Fan and Michelle J. White (2003), 'Personal Bankruptcy and the Level of Entrepreneurial Activity', Journal of Law and Economics, XLVI (2), October, 543-67
  • Evsey D. Domar and Richard A. Musgrave (1944), 'Proportional Income Taxation and Risk-Taking', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 58 (3), May, 388-422
  • S.M. Kanbur (1981), 'Risk Taking and Taxation: An Alternative Perspective', Journal of Public Economics, 15, 163-84
  • Martin T. Robson and Colin Wren (1999), 'Marginal and Average Tax Rates and the Incentive for Self-Employment', Southern Economic Journal, 65 (4), April, 757-73
  • Christian Keuschnigg and Soren Bo Nielsen (2002), 'Tax Policy, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship', Journal of Public Economics, 87, 175-203
  • Donald Bruce and Mohammed Mohsin (2006), 'Tax Policy and Entrepreneurship: New Time Series Evidence', Small Business Economics, 26, 409-25
  • Donald Bruce (2000), 'Effects of the United States Tax System on Transitions into Self-Employment', Labour Economics, 7, 545-74
  • Simon C. Parker (2003), 'Does Tax Evasion Affect Occupational Choice?', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 65 (3), July, 379-94
  • William M. Gentry and R. Glenn Hubbard (2000), 'Tax Policy and Entrepreneurial Entry', American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 90 (2), May, 283-7
  • Robert Carroll, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Mark Rider and Harvey S. Rosen (2000), 'Income Taxes and Entrepreneurs' Use of Labor', Journal of Labor Economics, 18 (2), April, 324-51
  • William G. Gale (1991), 'Economic Effects of Federal Credit Programs', American Economic Review, 81 (1), March, 133-52
  • David de Meza (2002), 'Overlending?', Economic Journal, 112, February, F17-F31
  • Christian Keuschnigg and Søren Bo Nielsen (2001), 'Public Policy for Venture Capital', International Tax and Public Finance, 8, 557-72
  • Wenli Li (1998), 'Government Loan, Guarantee and Grant Programs: An Evaluation', Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, 84 (4), Fall, 25-51
  • Brett Anitra Gilbert, David B. Audretsch and Patricia P. McDougall (2004), 'The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Policy', Small Business Economics, 22 (3/4), April/May, 313-23
  • Douglas Holtz-Eakin (2000), 'Public Policy Toward Entrepreneurship', Small Business Economics, 15, 283-91
  • Josh Lerner (1999), 'The Government as Venture Capitalist: The Long-Run Impact of the SBIR Program', Journal of Business, 72 (3), July, 285-318
  • Colin Wren and David J. Storey (2002), 'Evaluating the Effect of Soft Business Support upon Small Firm Performance', Oxford Economic Papers, 54, 334-65
  • Douglas J. Cumming and Jeffrey G. MacIntosh (2006), 'Crowding Out Private Equity: Canadian Evidence', Journal of Business Venturing, 21, 569-609
  • Randall G. Holcombe (2002), 'Political Entrepreneurship and the Democratic Allocation of Economic Resources', Review of Austrian Economics, 15 (2/3), 143-59
  • Michael Wohlgemuth (2000), 'Political Entrepreneurship and Bidding for Political Monopoly', Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 10, 273-95
  • George J. Stigler (1971), 'The Theory of Economic Regulation', Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science, 2 (1), Spring, 3-21
  • Daron Acemoglu and Thierry Verdier (1998), 'Property Rights, Corruption and the Allocation of Talent: A General Equilibrium Approach', Economic Journal, 108, September, 1381-403
  • Konstantin Sonin (2003), 'Why the Rich May Favor Poor Protection of Property Rights', Journal of Comparative Economics, 31, 715-31
  • Jesper Roine (2006), 'The Political Economics of Not Paying Taxes', Public Choice, 126, 107-34
  • Joel Mokyr (2000), 'Innovation and its Enemies: The Economic and Political Roots of Technological Inertia', in Mancur Olson (ed) and Satu Kähkönen (ed) (eds), A Not-So-Dismal Science, Chapter 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 61-91
  • Per Krusell and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull (2002), 'Politico-Economic Transition', Review of Economic Design, 7, 309-29
  • Giorgio Bellettini and Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano (2005), 'Special Interests and Technological Change', Review of Economic Studies, 72 (1), January, 43-56
  • Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (2000), 'Political Losers as a Barrier to Economic Development', American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 90 (2), May, 126-30
  • Césaire A. Meh (2005), 'Entrepreneurship, Wealth Inequality and Taxation', Review of Economic Dynamics, 8, 688-719
  • Vincenzo Quadrini (2000), 'Entrepreneurship, Saving and Social Mobility', Review of Economic Dynamics, 3, 1-40
  • Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Harvey S. Rosen and Robert Weathers (2000), 'Horatio Alger Meets the Mobility Tables', Small Business Economics, 14, 243-74
  • John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff (2002), 'The Central Role of Entrepreneurs in Transition Economies', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16 (3), Summer, 153-70
  • Alberto Chilosi (2001), 'Entrepreneurship and Transition', MOCT-MOST: Economic Policy in Transitional Economies, 11, 327-57
  • David Smallbone and Friederike Welter (2001), 'The Role of Government in SME Development in Transition Economies', International Small Business Journal, 19 (4), July-September, 63-77
  • Hans-Werner Sinn (1996), 'Social Insurance, Incentives and Risk Taking', International Tax and Public Finance, 3 (3), 259-80
  • Pekka Ilmakunnas and Vesa Kanniainen (2001), 'Entrepreneurship, Economic Risks and Risk Insurance in the Welfare State: Results with OECD Data 1978-93', German Economic Review, 2 (3), 195-218
  • Magnus Henrekson (2005), 'Entrepreneurship: A Weak Link in the Welfare State?', Industrial and Corporate Change, 14 (3), 437-67

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