Christopher Brown

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How Entrepreneurship Theory Created Economics

08/21/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Christopher Brown Mark Thornton

Volume 16, No. 4 (Winter 2013) ABSTRACT: Richard Cantillon is credited with the discovery of economic theory and was the first to fully consider the critical role of entrepreneurship in the economy...

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