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Freedom and Entrepreneurship: New Evidence from the 50 States

Joshua C. Hall, John Pulito, Benjamin J. VanMetre | Apr 17, 2012
Freedom in the 50 States includes measures of both economic and personal freedom. Personal freedom had not previously been studied as a factor in the entrepreneurship level, and this study found that it did not in fact have a significant impact on business creation. Only economic freedom appears to have a positive impact on entrepreneurship, although personal freedom is of course important for other reasons.

The Non-Productive Entrepreneurial Process

Published in
The Review of Austrian Economics
Christopher Coyne, John A. Dove | Dec 01, 2010
A large literature explores the importance of entrepreneurship as the catalyst of economic progress. In contrast, this paper argues that entrepreneurs are the driver of economic stagnation.

Entrepreneurship and the Taste for Discrimination

Published in
Journal of Evolutionary Economics
Christopher Coyne, Justin P. Isaacs, Jeremy T. Schwartz | Aug 01, 2010
This paper analyzes the connection between discrimination and entrepreneurship. The study contends that the entrepreneur is the central mechanism through which inefficiencies associated with discrimination are competed away. In addition to illuminating the mechanism through which existing discrimination tends to be eliminated, we also consider the more difficult case of consumer discrimination.

Can Decentralized Bottom-Up Post-Disaster Recovery Be Effective?

Virgil Storr, Stefanie Haeffele-Balch | Apr 05, 2010
Using data from interviews with affected residents and community leaders in New Orleans after Katrina, this article explores the effectiveness of private disaster recovery efforts and whether or not…

Entrepreneurship and the Varieties of Capitalism

Johan van der Walt | Feb 18, 2010
This paper contributes to the Varieties of Capitalism paradigm by arguing that the absence of an analytical framework that accounts for the differences between firms warrants some more consideration.

Alertness, Local Knowledge, and Johnny Appleseed

Published in
Review of Austrian Economics
David Skarbek | Dec 2009
"Anderson and Hill argue that property rights entrepreneurs, driven by non-replicable Kirznerian alertness, identify unowned and unpriced attributes of a resource and capture rents to those resources…

Rethinking Institutional Analysis: Interviews with Vincent and Elinor Ostrom

Paul Dragos Aligica | Oct 12, 2009
On November 7th, 2003, the Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and the Institute for Humane Studies…

The Role of Entrepreneurship in Conflict Reduction in the Post-Genocide Rwandan Coffee Industry

Jutta Tobias, Karol Boudreaux | Jun 2009
Entrepreneurship is widely acknowledged as a catalyst for poverty reduction and economic development. This paper presents evidence from a field survey conducted during the summer of 2008 among a…

Entrepreneurship, Institutions, and Economic Growth

Frederic Sautet | Sep 08, 2008
This paper provides a brief view of growth and social change taken from the perspective of the entrepreneurial process and Austrian Austrian economics in order to establish the following chain of argument.

The Next Silicon Valley?

On the Relationship Between Geographical Clustering and Public Policy
Published in
International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
Frederic Sautet, Pierre Desrochers, Gert-Jan Hospers | Aug 29, 2008
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