Austrian Economics and Organizational Entrepreneurship: A Typology
This new typology of numerous strands of Austrian (and Austrian-related) economics provides some essential insights into the field of entrepreneurship and organization economics.
This new typology of numerous strands of Austrian (and Austrian-related) economics provides some essential insights into the field of entrepreneurship and organization economics.
Christopher Calton reviews David Skarbek's insightful book on prison social order, which shows how informal governance systems form and operate in a surprising environment.
The Skyscraper Index, as Mark Thornton shows, links record-breaking building construction with the business cycle, in a way consistent with Austrian business cycle theory.
Tate Fegley reviews Elizabeth Hinton's book on mass incarceration, finding in it a good overview of US criminal justice from Kennedy to Reagan, but no clear, discernible thesis.
This paper introduces, through two longitudinal case studies, a more dynamic understanding of opportunities. This generates novel insights about how entrepreneurs view opportunities.
Just as markets can be described as price discovery procedures for existing goods, services, and resources, entrepreneurship can be usefully described as a price discovery procedure for future goods, services, and resources.
This article theoretically refines and empirically extends the subjectivist approach to team entrepreneurship, finding that positive internal and external team dynamics contribute to team effectiveness.
This article discusses the complementarities between New Institutional Economics and Austrian economics, which can advance our understanding of the relationship between institutions and entrepreneurship.
David Gordon reviews Mario Rizzo and Glen Whitman's discussion of behavioral economics, which suggests we know much less about the prevalence of irrational choice than behavioral economists think we do.
Rather than relying on the evenly rotating economy, this paper uses the imaginary construction of a specialization deadlock to define the entrepreneur-promoter, the pioneers of economic improvement, praxeologically.