Understanding Entrepreneurship Across Countries and Over Time -- An Eclectic Theory of Entrepreneurship: Policies, Institutions and Culture -- Determinants of Entrepreneurship in France -- Determinants of Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands -- Determinants of Entrepreneurship in Germany --...

Entrepreneurship and growth are central concerns of policy makers around the world. Local Heroes in the Global Village introduces public policies for the promotion of entrepreneurship on a comparative, primarily German-American level. The book contributes to the debate what role public policies...

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come...