The Entrepreneur

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Title
3. Copyright
4. Foreword
5. Introduction
6. 1 From Term to Concept: the Entrepreneur and his Economic Function
   1. 1.1. Etymological and conceptual bases of the entrepreneur
   2. 1.2. The gradual recognition of the role of entrepreneurship
   3. 1.3. From a society of salary-earners to one of entrepreneurs?
   4. 1.4. Current definitions of entrepreneurship, or the institutional recognition of the entrepreneur
   5. 1.5. The plural entrepreneur
7. 2 Quantifying Entrepreneurship, Understanding the Entrepreneurial Role
   1. 2.1. Basic principles: the OECD’s model
   2. 2.2. The main entrepreneurship indicators
   3. 2.3. The European Union’s inclusive policy to promote entrepreneurship
   4. 2.4. Supporting entrepreneurship in developing countries: the ambitions of the United Nations (UN) and the United States
8. 3 Classical Economics of the Entrepreneur
   1. 3.1. Richard Cantillon: an economic agent with uncertain income
   2. 3.2. Anne Robert Jacques Turgot: the “progress” of the capitalist entrepreneur
   3. 3.3. François Quesnay, the manufacturing and commercial entrepreneur belongs to the sterile class
   4. 3.4. Pietro Verri and Cesare Beccaria, the inspiration for Jean-Baptiste Say?
   5. 3.5. Adam Smith: sympathy for initiative, but distrust of project creators
   6. 3.6. Jean-Baptiste Say: intermediary between scholar and laborer
   7. 3.7. Karl Marx, entrepreneur or officer of capital
   8. 3.8. Jean-Gustave Courcelle Seneuil, economist-entrepreneur or entrepreneur-economist?
   9. 3.9. The marginalists’ faux pas or Léon Walras’s ghost entrepreneur
   10. 3.10. Alfred Marshall, division of industry into entrepreneurial and managerial businesses
   11. 3.11. Werner Sombart and Max Weber, the entrepreneur or the spirit of capitalism
   12. 3.12. Joseph A. Schumpeter: the entrepreneur’s “new combinations of production factors”
   13. 3.13. John Maynard Keynes: the animal spirit of the entrepreneur
   14. 3.14. From uncertainty to ignorance: Ludwig von Mises, Franck Knight and Friedrich Hayek
   15. 3.15. Creating or detecting opportunities?
9. 4 Contemporary Theories of the Entrepreneur
   1. 4.1. From entrepreneur to industrial economy
   2. 4.2. Ronald Coase, or the entrepreneur on the frontier of industrial economics
   3. 4.3. William Baumol, the entrepreneur and the Prince of Denmark
   4. 4.4. Mark Casson: entrepreneurship – an alternative to employment?
   5. 4.5. Scott Shane or the genetic theory of the entrepreneur
   6. 4.6. Entrepreneur, innovation, territory and social networks
   7. 4.7. Mark Granovetter – from social integration to weighted networks
   8. 4.8. Towards an evolutionist theory of the entrepreneur, or the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship
10. 5 Towards a Socioeconomics of the Entrepreneur: An Overview
    1. 5.1. The 13 keywords of the economics of the entrepreneur
    2. 5.2. On the entrepreneur’s personality: the player and the system
    3. 5.3. Resource potential and the social integration of the entrepreneur
    4. 5.4. Overall picture of the theory of the entrepreneur
11. Conclusion
12. Bibliography
13. Index
14. End User License Agreement