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Israel M. Kirzner: An Outstanding Austrian Contributor to the Economics of Entrepreneurship
Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus; Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006
Israel M. Kirzner is the 2006 winner of The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research. In … this essay, we present and evaluate his main contributions to the economics of entrepreneurship. The focus is on how … crucial role of entrepreneurship and the individual entrepreneur has become visible to a much broader audience. …
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The Alert and Creative Entrepreneur: A Clarification
Kirzner, Israel M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
Israel M. Kirzner is the 2006 winner of The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research (the … entrepreneurial decisions) provides a theoretical underpinning for public policy vis-à-vis entrepreneurship. Professor Kirzner’s main … contributions to the economics of entrepreneurship were also presented and evaluated by Douhan, Eliasson and Henrekson (2007). …
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The Bright but Right View? A New Type of Evidence on Entrepreneurial Optimism
Bengtsson, Ola; Ekeblom, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence of a behavioral bias in entrepreneurial decision-making. We revisit this claim by analyzing an unusually large survey dataset (180,814 responses) that allows us to create a...
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