Billionaires
Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is typically trivial: self-employed persons. This paper investigates entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is enormous: billionaires. We explore the relationship between economic development, institutions, and these contrasting kinds of entrepreneurs. We find that the institutions consistent with self-employed entrepreneurs differ markedly from the ones consistent with billionaires. Further, only the latter are consistent with the institutions that underlie economic prosperity. Where well-protected private property rights and supporting, market-enhancing institutions flourish, so do billionaires. But self-employed entrepreneurs don't. Where private property rights are weakly protected and interventionist institutions flourish, so do self-employed entrepreneurs. But billionaires don't.
Year of publication: |
2012
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Authors: | Leeson, Peter ; Sanandaji, Tino |
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Stockholm : Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) |
Subject: | Unternehmer | Reichtum | Selbstständige | Institutionalismus | Welt | Billionaires | Entrepreneurship | Self-employment | Institutions |
Saved in:
freely available
Series: | IFN Working Paper ; 893 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 715329510 [GVK] hdl:10419/81343 [Handle] RePEc:hhs:iuiwop:0893 [RePEc] |
Classification: | H20 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue. General ; L26 - Entrepreneurship ; L53 - Enterprise Policy ; O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements |
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