The Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship / / William J. Baumol.

Entrepreneurs are widely recognized for the vital contributions they make to economic growth and general welfare, yet until fairly recently entrepreneurship was not considered worthy of serious economic study. Today, progress has been made to integrate entrepreneurship into macroeconomics, but until...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 1 halftone. 10 line illus. 4 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Figures and Tables
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Entrepreneurship in Economic Theory: Reasons for Its Absence and Goals for Its Restoration
  • Part I. Pricing, Remuneration, and Allocation of the Agents of Innovation
  • Chapter 2. Toward Characterization of the Innovation Industry: The David-Goliath Symbiosis
  • Chapter 3. Entrepreneurship, Invention, and Pricing: Toward Static Microtheory
  • Chapter 4. Oligopolistic "Red Queen" Innovation Games, Mandatory Price Discrimination, and Markets in Innovation
  • Part I I . Welfare Theory: Technology Transfer, Imitation, and Creative Destruction
  • Chapter 5. Optimal Innovation Spillovers: The Growth-Distribution Trade-off
  • Chapter 6. Enterprising Technology Dissemination: Toward Optimal Transfer Pricing and the Invaluable Contribution of "Mere Imitation"
  • Chapter 7. The Entrepreneur and the Beneficial Externalities of Creative Destruction
  • Part III. Institutions, Payoffs, and the Entrepreneur's Choice of Activity: Historical Origins
  • Chapter 8. Economic Warfare as a "Red Queen" Game: The Emergence of Productive Entrepreneurship
  • Chapter 9. On the Origins of Widespread Productive Entrepreneurship
  • Chapter 10. The Allocation of Entrepreneurship Does Matter
  • Chapter 11. Mega-enterprising Redesign of Governing Institutions: Keystone of Dynamic Microtheory
  • Chapter 12. Summing Up: Yes, the Theory of Entrepreneurship Is on Its Way
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index