TY - BOOK AU - Boutillier,Sophie AU - Uzunidis,Dimitri TI - The Entrepreneur: the economic function of free enterprise T2 - Smart innovation set SN - 9781786300539 AV - HB615 .B672 2016 U1 - 658.4/21 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Hoboken, NJ, Hoboken, NJ PB - Wiley/ ISTE Ltd KW - Entrepreneurship KW - fast N1 - 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 ER -