The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur
| The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur: Essays on Organizations and Markets | |
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| Author(s) | Peter G. Klein |
| Country | United States |
| Subject(s) | Economics |
| Genre(s) | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Ludwig von Mises Institute |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Media type | Print, Digital |
| Pages | xii, 240 p. |
| ISBN | 9781933550794 |
| OCLC Number | 639036108 |
The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur: Essays on Organizations and Markets is a collection of essays by American economist Peter G. Klein. Klein makes the argument that entrepreneurship is a far broader, pervasive, and more important phenomenon in the market and in the free society than the common mainstream definition given and understood by researchers and policymakers.
In this anthology Klein rehabilitates and expands the classical concept of the entrepreneur as a judgmental decision-maker, linking the capitalist-investor and the entrepreneur-promoter. Building on foundations laid by the Austrian School of economics, Frank Knight’s theory of uncertainty, and the modern economics of organization, Klein shows how an entrepreneurial perspective sheds light on firm size and structure, corporate governance and control, mergers and acquisitions, organizational design, and a host of managerial and financial problems.
The text also offers a reinterpretation of the modern Austrian School and a critique of the “opportunity-discovery” perspective in modern entrepreneurship studies. A series of shorter essays cover other topics such as the economics of the Internet, network theory, the socialism of the intellectual class, the financial crisis, and the contributions of Carl Menger, F. A. Hayek, and Oliver Williamson.
Links
- Document page at Mises.org (including full text)
- Full text at Scribd
- Foreword by Doug French
- Introduction (at LRC here)
- Excerpt "Opportunity and the Entrepreneur"
- Sell Sheet
- Articles, essays and reviews
- "The Driving Force of the Market" by Peter G. Klein, May 2010
- "What Is Entrepreneurship?" by Murray N. Rothbard, from Man, Economy, and State
- "On French’s Forward to Klein’s New Book" by Danny Sanchez, May 2010 (On Introduction)(On Chapter 1)(On Chapter 2)(On Chapter 3)(On Chapter 4)
- "Capitalism and the Capitalists" by Jonathan M.F. Catalán, December 2011
- "The Truth About the "Robber Barons"" by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, from How Capitalism Saved America
- "The Capitalist's Conundrum" by Stephen Mauzy, September 2011
- "Hip Hop: The 21st C. Sound of Capitalism and Entrepreneurship?" by Justin Ptak, October 2011
- "The Capitalist in the Hat" by Robert P. Murphy, April 2011
- "Entrepreneurship and Self-Finance" (PDF) by Richard C. B. Johnsson, January 2005
- "The Role of Entrepreneurship in Desocialization" (PDF) by Jeffrey M. Herbener
- "Do Entrepreneurs Make Predictable Mistakes? Evidence from Corporate Divestitures" (PDF) by Peter G. Klein & Sandra K. Klein, Summer 2001
- "Professor Hebert on Entrepreneurship" (PDF) by Murray N. Rothbard Fall 1985
- "Entrepreneurship , Economic Evolution, and the End of Capitalism: Reconsidering Schumpeter's Thesis" (PDF) by Matthew McCaffrey, Fall 2009
- "The Marvel That Is Capitalism" by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., April 2002
- "The Faith of Entrepreneurs" by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., December 2005
- Other media
- Author's Forum: The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur lecture by Peter G. Klein, March 2011 (YouTube)
- Austrian Economics for Capitalists and Entrepreneurs lecture by Peter G. Klein, July 2010
- Entrepreneurship and the Capitalist Society Inteview with Peter G. Klein, June 2011
- What is the role of the capitalist entrepreneur in Austrian Economics? clip from Murray Rothbard
- Related courses
- Entrepreneurship in a Capitalist Economy Mises Academy course by Peter G. Klein
- Big Business and the Market: Friends or Foes? Mises Academy course by Art Carden and Peter G. Klein
- "Big Business and the Market" by Peter G. Klein, December 2011
