coordination can be used as a clear-cut criterion of economic goodness. Kirzner wishes to claim that gainful entrepreneurial action …’s discussions of coordination are spurious. In denying looseness and trying to cope with the brittleness of categorical claims …, Kirzner becomes abstruse. His discourse erupts with problems. Kirzner has erred in rejecting the understanding of coordination …

We tell of the evolving meaning of the term coordination as used by economists. The paper is based on systematic … electronic searches (on “coord,” etc.) of major works and leading journals. The term coordination first emerged in professional … represent what we term concatenate coordination. The next major development came in the 1930s from several LSE economists (Hayek …

Using Schelling’s analysis of mutual coordination and focal points, I interpret Smithian sympathy as sentiment … coordination. When the yearning for sentiment coordination seeks, further, for it to encompass the whole social group and looks … coordination asserts itself by denying individual self-ownership. Government activism and coercion become romantic ends in …

Alan Kahan’s Mind vs. Money: The War between Intellectuals and Capitalism (Transaction Publishers, 2010) treats … intellectuals are necessarily alienated from “capitalism.” In this essay I discuss Kahan’s erudite and insightful – though sometimes …

. Moreover, to a certain degree virtues are learnt through the practice of <p> entrepreneurship. Due to their importance, though …

This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of entrepreneurship across countries. The paper investigates the … relationship between the institutional setting, in terms of economic freedom, and entrepreneurship, as measured by self … to increase entrepreneurship. <p …

Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining …