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Firms, governments, and economic change : an entrepreneurial perspective / created by Tony Fu-Lai Yu.

By: Material type: TextTextEdward Elgar Pub., 2001Description: ix, 174 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 184064365X
  • 9781840643657
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HB615 FUL
Contents:
Contents: Foreword by Richard Langlois Introduction Part I: Entrepreneurship 1. Entrepreneurial Alertness and Discovery Part II: Firms 2. A Praxeological Theory of the Firm 3. The Chinese Family Firm and Guerrilla Entrepreneurship Part III: Governments 4. Government Entrepreneurship 5. The State as a National Coordinator 6. Asian Entrepreneurial States Part IV: Economic Change 7. An Entrepreneurial Perspective of Institutional Change 8. Economic Development in Latecomer Economies References Index
Summary: This topical book interprets firms, governments and economic change from an entrepreneurial perspective. Essentially, it applies the Austrian theory of human agency and evolutionary theories of the firm to explain economic organisation, the state and institutional change.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Main Library Open Shelf HB615 FUL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 158795 Available BK146638
Book Book Main Library Open Shelf HB615 FUL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 158794 Available BK146635
Book Book Main Library Open Shelf HB615 FUL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 158793 Available BK146641

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Foreword by Richard Langlois Introduction Part I: Entrepreneurship 1. Entrepreneurial Alertness and Discovery Part II: Firms 2. A Praxeological Theory of the Firm 3. The Chinese Family Firm and Guerrilla Entrepreneurship Part III: Governments 4. Government Entrepreneurship 5. The State as a National Coordinator 6. Asian Entrepreneurial States Part IV: Economic Change 7. An Entrepreneurial Perspective of Institutional Change 8. Economic Development in Latecomer Economies References Index

This topical book interprets firms, governments and economic change from an entrepreneurial perspective. Essentially, it applies the Austrian theory of human agency and evolutionary theories of the firm to explain economic organisation, the state and institutional change.

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