The Entrepreneur

Volume 6, Number 1 (Fall 1985)

Charles Baird discusses the impact of Government regulation on entrepreneurial discovery.

Economic growth is determined by two elements, by (a) by the available quantities of goods that can be used in the productive process and (b) by the adroitness with which these available factors of production are combined.

Entrepreneurs exploit market opportunities and innovate to achieve or maintain strategic advantage over their competitors.In the absence of government regulation,

This paper revisits the concept of entrepreneurship, which is frequently neglected in mainstream economics, and discusses the importance of defining and isolating this concept in the context of large, publicly held companies. 

Do entrepreneurs make predictable mistakes? Theory and evidence suggest otherwise. Contrary to the conventional wisdom on mergers and sell-offs, divestitures of previously acquired assets 

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. 

Why do business firms exist?  Do firms substitute for the market or complement the market?  Why do firms buy some inputs but make others?These are basic economic questions. 

In his book The Theory of Economic Development, Schumpeter (1934) pointed out that entrepreneurs are prime movers of economic change. The entrepreneurs described by Schumpeter were innovators.

Changes in ownership titles are essential to understanding competitive dynamics and, more broadly, the market process. There is ample evidence that a crucial source of productivity growth,

Professor Holcombe argues that Kirznerian entrepreneurial alertness enables market actors to spot previously unnoticed profit opportunities. Entrepreneurs then act upon these opportunities.