TY - BOOK AU - Yu,Tony Fu-Lai TI - Firms, governments, and economic change: an entrepreneurial perspective SN - 184064365X AV - HB615 FUL PY - 2001/// PB - Edward Elgar Pub. KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Government policy KW - Business enterprises KW - Economic development KW - Asia N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -