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Business policy --- AA / International- internationaal --- 338.040 --- 338.30 --- Ondernemingen: algemeenheden. --- Organisatie van de productie: algemeenheden.

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Whether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs--and their innovations--have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. The Invention of Enterprise gathers together, for the first time, leading economic historians to explore the entrepreneur's role in society from antiquity to the present. Addressing social and institutional influences from a historical context, each chapter examines entrepreneurship during a particular period and in an important geographic location. The book chronicles the sweeping history of enterprise in Mesopotamia and Neo-Babylon; carries the reader through the Islamic Middle East; offers insights into the entrepreneurial history of China, Japan, and Colonial India; and describes the crucial role of the entrepreneur in innovative activity in Europe and the United States, from the medieval period to today. In considering the critical contributions of entrepreneurship, the authors discuss why entrepreneurial activities are not always productive and may even sabotage prosperity. They examine the institutions and restrictions that have enabled or impeded innovation, and the incentives for the adoption and dissemination of inventions. They also describe the wide variations in global entrepreneurial activity during different historical periods and the similarities in development, as well as entrepreneurship's role in economic growth. The book is filled with past examples and events that provide lessons for promoting and successfully pursuing contemporary entrepreneurship as a means of contributing to the welfare of society. The Invention of Enterprise lays out a definitive picture for all who seek an understanding of innovation's central place in our world.

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Microeconomics --- Economic man --- Micro-économie --- Homo oeconomicus --- Economic man. --- AA / International- internationaal --- 330.101 --- 338.040 --- 650 --- 330.101.542 --- Price theory --- Economics --- Human beings --- Self-interest --- Economische analyse. Economische methodologie. Economische onderzoeksmethoden--(theoretische economie) --- Ondernemingen: algemeenheden. --- Theorieën en grondbeginselen. Management. --- 330.101 Economische analyse. Economische methodologie. Economische onderzoeksmethoden--(theoretische economie) --- Micro-économie --- Ondernemingen: algemeenheden --- Theorieën en grondbeginselen. Management --- Microeconomics.

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330.81 --- AA / International- internationaal --- 330.00 --- 338.8 --- 338.040 --- 330.81 Voorlopers van Adam Smith. Mercantilisme. Colbertisme. Fysiocraten. Kameralisme --(economisch denken) --- Voorlopers van Adam Smith. Mercantilisme. Colbertisme. Fysiocraten. Kameralisme --(economisch denken) --- Economische en sociale theorieën: algemeenheden. --- Economische groei. --- Ondernemingen: algemeenheden. --- Economics --- Economics. --- Economische en sociale theorieën: algemeenheden --- Economische groei --- Ondernemingen: algemeenheden

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Zipf's law is one of the few quantitative reproducible regularities found in economics. It states that, for most countries, the size distributions of city sizes and of firms are power laws with a specific exponent: the number of cities and of firms with sizes greater than S is inversely proportional to S. Zipf's law also holds in many other scientific fields. Most explanations start with Gibrat's law of proportional growth (also known as "preferential attachment'' in the application to network growth) but need to incorporate additional constraints and ingredients introducing deviations from it. This book presents a general theoretical derivation of Zipf's law, providing a synthesis and extension of previous approaches. The general theory is presented in the language of firm dynamics for the sake of convenience but applies to many other systems. It takes into account (i) time-varying firm creation, (ii) firm's exit resulting from both a lack of sufficient capital and sudden external shocks, (iii) the coupling between firm's birth rate and the growth of the value of the population of firms. The robustness of Zipf's law is understood from the approximate validity of a general balance condition. A classification of the mechanisms responsible for deviations from Zipf's law is also offered.

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