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Economics of Entrepreneurship »

Authors: Simon C. Parker
ISBN-13: 9780521899604, ISBN-10: 0521899605
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: December 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Simon C. Parker

Book Synopsis

The Economics of Entrepreneurship is an introductory, non-technical overview of what economics adds to our understanding of entrepreneurship. The author identifies issues that can resolved using economic analysis, presents the theoretical and empirical models that form the intellectual foundations of the economics of entrepreneurship, and reviews well-established theoretical contributions and empirical findings consistent with these models. The Economics of Entrepreneurship provides details of the salient theoretical and empirical approaches that have been applied to entrepreneurship. These details are provided in a deliberately non-technical way in order to make the book as accessible to as wide an audience as possible. References are given to more detailed technical treatments of the issues which the interested reader can pursue if they wish.

1	Entrepreneurship in economic theory	1
2	On the size distribution of business firms	11
3	The allocation of talent : implications for growth	27
4	A general equilibrium entrepreneurial theory of firm formation based on risk version	55
5	A time series models of self-employment under uncertainty	85
6	An empirical analysis of self-employment in the UK	105
7	A time-series analysis of self-employment in the United States	119
8	Some empirical aspects of entrepreneurship	142
9	What makes an entrepreneur?	159
10	Ethnic and racial self-employment : differences and possible explanations	197
11	Consumer discrimination and self-employment	234
12	Characteristics of self-employed women in the United States	259
13	The self-employment experience of immigrants	274
14	Credit rationing in markets with imperfect information	299
15	Too much investment : a problem of asymmetric information	317
16	An estimated model of entrepreneurial choice under liquidity constraints	331
17	Entrepreneurial decisions and liquidity constraints	351
18	Self-employment and windfall gains : evidence from the Swedish lottery	365
19	The relationship between firm growth, size, and age : estimates for 100 manufacturing industries	379
20	Selection and the evolution of industry	394
21	Small-firm entry in US manufacturing	416
22	Innovation in large and small firms : an empirical analysis	427
23	Entry, exit, growth, and innovation over the product life cycle	440
24	Entrepreneur human capital inputs and small business longevity	465
25	Are business startups debt-rationed?	474
26	A theory of entrepreneurship and its application to the study of business transfers	492