Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics

Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth: The Theory of Emergent Institutions

The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
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Volume 12, No. 3 (2009)

 

This paper enlarges Menger’s theory of the origins of money by making explicit the role of entrepreneurship in the theory and by extending the theory to market institutions other than money. Drawing on the research of anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, the paper considers the origins of three institutions that underlie economic growth—the division of labor, monetary accounting, and private property. Menger’s generalized theory of the origins of institutions is used to interpret each of these institutions.

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High, Jack. “Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth: The Theory of Emergent Institutions.” The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 12, No. 3 (2009): 3–36.

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