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. …

Israel M. Kirzner is the 2006 winner of The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research (the …” and “Kirznerian” entrepreneurs is flawed. He also argues that his understanding of the market process (set in motion by … entrepreneurial decisions) provides a theoretical underpinning for public policy vis-à-vis entrepreneurship. Professor Kirzner’s main …

answer such a general question. Indeed, the question is poorly phrased. The relationship between income and wealth … distribution, on one hand, and efficiency/growth, on the other, depends on how a certain distribution of income and wealth has come …

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception … mortality one sixth as large the cross-sectional gradient. In our intergenerational analyses, we find that wealth increases …

answer such a general question. Indeed, the question is poorly phrased. The relationship between income and wealth … distribution, on one hand, and efficiency/growth, on the other, depends on how a certain distribution of income and wealth has come …

entrepreneurs and how these actions depend upon the prevailing institutions. While institutions have extensively been examined for … their influences upon the freedoms and the incentives of entrepreneurs, and thereby upon the level of employment of … resources, this paper examines their influences upon the selection of entrepreneurs, and thereby upon the efficiency of that …

entrepreneurs with respect to commercialization as well as the rate of innovation. We find that stronger intellectual property … protection makes it more likely that entrepreneurs will commercialize by cooperating with incumbents rather than competing with …

where adverse selection problems between entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and incumbents are present. We show that as …