Using Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation to Mitigate Wealth Inequality / / Thomas S. Lyons, Roger E. Hamlin, Amanda Hamlin.

Economic inequality continues to contribute to political and social instability around the world. This instability stifles development and results in widening the wealth gap between the "haves" and "have nots," further eroding stability. It has been argued that entrepreneurship i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
©2019
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:The Alexandra Lajoux Corporate Governance Series ,
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVI, 164 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • About De/G PRESS:Five Stars as a Rule
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • About the Series Editor
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Wealth Inequality: What Is It? Why Do We Care?
  • Chapter 2: Growth and Development
  • Chapter 3: The Rise of Entrepreneurship as an Economic Development Strategy
  • Chapter 4: How Entrepreneurship Can Be Fostered in a Way That Mitigates Economic Inequality
  • Chapter 5: An Example from New York City: Competition THRIVE
  • Chapter 6: An Example from Chicago: The West Side Business Xcelerator
  • Chapter 7: An Example from Michigan: The Michigan State University Product Center Food-Ag-Bio
  • Chapter 8: An Example from Poland: The Warsaw Entrepreneurship Forum
  • Chapter 9: Community Entrepreneurship: The Cases of the Lumber Enterprise in Ixtlan, Mexico, and the Pubs of Rural Ireland
  • Chapter 10: Social Entrepreneurship among Native Peoples of the Americas: A Model or an Exception?
  • Chapter 11: Necessary but Not Sufficient: Only Systemic Approaches Transform
  • Index