Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-122) and index.and index.

Machine generated contents note: 5.4. Overall picture of the theory of the entrepreneur. 1.1. Etymological and conceptual bases of the entrepreneur -- 1.2. The gradual recognition of the role of entrepreneurship -- 1.3. From a society of salary-earners to one of entrepreneurs? -- 1.4. Current definitions of entrepreneurship, or the institutional recognition of the entrepreneur -- 1.5. The plural entrepreneur -- ch. 2 Quantifying Entrepreneurship, Understanding the Entrepreneurial Role -- 2.1. Basic principles: the OECD's model -- 2.2. The main entrepreneurship indicators -- 2.2.1. Eurostat indicators -- 2.2.2. OECD and Eurostat indicators -- 2.2.3. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor indicators -- 2.2.4. World Bank indicators and the business climate -- 2.2.5. The official quantification of business creation in France: the Business Creation Observatory -- 2.3. The European Union's inclusive policy to promote entrepreneurship -- 2.4. Supporting entrepreneurship in developing countries: the ambitions of the United Nations (UN) and the United States -- ch. 3 Classical Economics of the Entrepreneur -- 3.1. Richard Cantillon: an economic agent with uncertain income -- 3.2. Anne Robert Jacques Turgot: the "progress" of the capitalist entrepreneur -- 3.3. Francois Quesnay, the manufacturing and commercial entrepreneur belongs to the sterile class -- 3.4. Pietro Verri and Cesare Beccaria, the inspiration for Jean-Baptiste Say? -- 3.5. Adam Smith: sympathy for initiative, but distrust of project creators -- 3.6. Jean-Baptiste Say: intermediary between scholar and laborer -- 3.7. Karl Marx, entrepreneur or officer of capital -- 3.8. Jean-Gustave Courcelle Seneuil, economist-entrepreneur or entrepreneur-economist? -- 3.9. The marginalists' faux pas or Leon Walrus's ghost entrepreneur -- 3.10. Alfred Marshall, division of industry into entrepreneurial and managerial businesses -- 3.11. Werner Sombart and Mux Weber, the entrepreneur or the spirit of capitalism -- 3.12. Joseph A. Schumpeter: the entrepreneur's "new combinations of production factors" -- 3.13. John Maynard Keynes: the animal spirit of the entrepreneur -- 3.14. From uncertainty to ignorance: Ludwig von Mises, Franck Knight and Friedrich Hayek -- 3.15. Creating or detecting opportunities? -- ch. 4 Contemporary Theories of the Entrepreneur -- 4.1. From entrepreneur to industrial economy -- 4.2. Ronald Coase, or the entrepreneur on the frontier of industrial economics -- 4.3. William Baumol, the entrepreneur and the Prince of Denmark -- 4.4. Mark Casson: entrepreneurship -- an alternative to employment? -- 4.5. Scott Shane or the genetic theory of the entrepreneur -- 4.6. Entrepreneur, innovation, territory and social networks -- 4.7. Mark Granovetter -- from social integration to weighted networks -- 4.8. Towards an evolutionist theory of the entrepreneur, or the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship -- ch. 5 Towards a Socioeconomics of the Entrepreneur: An Overview -- 5.1. The 13 keywords of the economics of the entrepreneur -- 5.2. On the entrepreneur's personality: the player and the system -- 5.3. Resource potential and the social integration of the entrepreneur -- 5.4. Overall picture of the theory of the entrepreneur.