Entrepreneurship, as reflected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the ow … around the world in the fight against COVID-19. This paper, after documenting preliminary evidence on these declines, argues … that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …

We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is … the thesis that entrepreneurship has become less productive, due to the unintended effects of entrepreneurship policies … adopted widely in Western economies. These have straight-jacketed, distracted and zombified entrepreneurship. Removing these …

-periods, and over the longer term with respect to the growth in the size of their economies. Most important, the comparison of an …

the United Kingdom and become the leading world economy. During the past 25 years, the four countries have also … extent also to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the remarkable … and knowledge spillovers. Most recently (in 2006), before the current financial world crisis, hourly labor productivity …

firms (entrepreneurship) and the average quality of management (meritocracy). Legal reform also reduces financial … improve meritocracy at the expense of entrepreneurship. As a result, legal reform encounters less political opposition than …

Entrepreneurship scholarship and policy are based on the myth of firm growth as imperative and the related myth of …. Green growth and sustainable entrepreneurship are exposed as oxymorons. Given the dangers and the impossibility of perpetual … growth, the paper then tries to answer the question of what role entrepreneurship could play in a post-growth society or in …

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …