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| Introduction |
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Chapter 1 From Term to Concept: the Entrepreneur and his Economic Function |
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1.1 Etymological and conceptual bases of the entrepreneur |
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1.2 The gradual recognition of the role of entrepreneurship |
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1.3 From a society of salary-earners to one of entrepreneurs? |
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1.4 Current definitions of entrepreneurship, or the institutional recognition of the entrepreneur |
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1.5 The plural entrepreneur |
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Chapter 2 Quantifying Entrepreneurship, Understanding the Entrepreneurial Role |
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2.1 Basic principles: the OECD's model |
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2.2 The main entrepreneurship indicators |
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2.2.1 Eurostat indicators |
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2.2.2 OECD and Eurostat indicators |
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2.2.3 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor indicators |
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2.2.4 World Bank indicators and the business climate |
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28 | (1) |
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2.2.5 The official quantification of business creation in France: the Business Creation Observatory |
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2.3 The European Union's inclusive policy to promote entrepreneurship |
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2.4 Supporting entrepreneurship in developing countries: the ambitions of the United Nations (UN) and the United States |
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Chapter 3 Classical Economics of the Entrepreneur |
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3.1 Richard Cantillon: an economic agent with uncertain income |
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3.2 Anne Robert Jacques Turgot: the "progress" of the capitalist entrepreneur |
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3.3 Francois Quesnay, the manufacturing and commercial entrepreneur belongs to the sterile class |
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3.4 Pietro Verri and Cesare Beccaria, the inspiration for Jean-Baptiste Say? |
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3.5 Adam Smith: sympathy for initiative, but distrust of project creators |
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3.6 Jean-Baptiste Say: intermediary between scholar and laborer |
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3.7 Karl Marx, entrepreneur or officer of capital |
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3.8 Jean-Gustave Courcelle Seneuil, economist-entrepreneur or entrepreneur-economist? |
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3.9 The marginalists' faux pas or Leon Walras's ghost entrepreneur |
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51 | (5) |
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3.10 Alfred Marshall, division of industry into entrepreneurial and managerial businesses |
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56 | (2) |
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3.11 Werner Sombart and Max Weber, the entrepreneur or the spirit of capitalism |
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3.12 Joseph A. Schumpeter: the entrepreneur's "new combinations of production factors" |
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3.13 John Maynard Keynes: the animal spirit of the entrepreneur |
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65 | (2) |
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3.14 From uncertainty to ignorance: Ludwig von Mises, Franck Knight and Friedrich Hayek |
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67 | (2) |
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3.15 Creating or detecting opportunities? |
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Chapter 4 Contemporary Theories of the Entrepreneur |
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4.1 From entrepreneur to industrial economy |
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4.2 Ronald Coase, or the entrepreneur on the frontier of industrial economics |
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4.3 William Baumol, the entrepreneur and the Prince of Denmark |
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4.4 Mark Casson: entrepreneurship -- an alternative to employment? |
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79 | (4) |
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4.5 Scott Shane or the genetic theory of the entrepreneur |
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4.6 Entrepreneur, innovation, territory and social networks |
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85 | (3) |
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4.7 Mark Granovetter -- from social integration to weighted networks |
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88 | (2) |
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4.8 Towards an evolutionist theory of the entrepreneur, or the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship |
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90 | (3) |
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Chapter 5 Towards a Socioeconomics of the Entrepreneur: An Overview |
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5.1 The 13 keywords of the economics of the entrepreneur |
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5.2 On the entrepreneur's personality: the player and the system |
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95 | (5) |
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5.3 Resource potential and the social integration of the entrepreneur |
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100 | (3) |
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5.4 Overall picture of the theory of the entrepreneur |
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103 | (6) |
| Conclusion |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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