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Entrepreneurs: Changing the World through Business

The EntrepreneurEntrepreneurship

Blog04/04/2019

We take so many things that make daily life easier for granted. But entrepreneurs are usually behind what often amounts to revolutionary changes.

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Ludwig von Mises on the Difference Between Entrepreneurs and Managers

The EntrepreneurPhilosophy and MethodologyValue and Exchange

Blog02/28/2019

When Mises noted that a manager is a "junior partner" of the entrepreneur, he did not mean to downplay the role of management in the economy.

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Surging Wealth Inequality Is Poverty's Greatest Enemy

The EntrepreneurLabor and WagesPoverty

Blog02/06/2019

The rich get rich by virtue of making what's dear rather cheap, thus helping the poor the most.

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Herb Kelleher and the Free-Market Fight for Southwest

BiographiesThe EntrepreneurFree Markets

Blog01/21/2019

Big firms that dominate the marketplace have never had much of a problem with government regulations that keep new competitors from springing up.

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In Praise of Christmas Tree Salesmen

The EntrepreneurU.S. History

Blog12/24/2018

It's thanks to markets and entrepreneurs that turkeys, toys, and Christmas trees can be mass produced and delivered to a great many ordinary people at a reasonable price.

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Kirk Kerkorian: Misesian Entrepreneur

The EntrepreneurEntrepreneurship

Blog10/26/2018

Kerkorian was an eighth-grade dropout who would go on to earn billions, and epitomized Mises's idea of the entrepreneur.

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8 Traits of the Entrepreneur

The EntrepreneurEntrepreneurship

Blog10/17/2018

We have designed a survey to investigate 8 entrepreneurial traits. Please help us to refine this research instrument by participating in this survey.

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Boston's Ice King: A Forgotten Capitalist Hero

The Entrepreneur

Blog10/04/2018

Frederic Tudor solved the problems of transporting large amounts of ice over long distances and introducing the citizens of Calcutta to their first taste of ice cream.

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It's The Customer, Stupid: A Marx vs. Menger Battle on Netflix

The EntrepreneurLabor and Wages

Blog09/17/2018

The Company Men shows how, in order to move on from a devastating layoff, workers must first figure out how to be valuable to the customers.

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Why the "Economy Is an Engine" Metaphor is So Wrong

Booms and BustsThe Entrepreneur

Blog09/06/2018

The economy is not an engine, or a tool, and does not perform any “work.” The economy is you and me.

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