Entrepreneurship

Why teach entrepreneurship on the first day of Mises University? Because for the Austrians, Peter Klein argues, entrepreneurs aren’t niche figures from the world of startups and venture capital—they’re the driving force of the entire market. Following Mises, Klein defines entrepreneurship as the bearing of uncertainty: the act of combining land, labor, and capital in advance of an unknown payoff. It’s not a personality trait or an industry, but a fundamental category of human action.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 19, 2025.

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