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We already live in a degrowth world, and we do not like it

Naudé, Wim - 2023

The Degrowth Movement calls for "degrowth" - a reduction in GDP in advanced economies - to avert an ecological crisis. This paper argues that the Degrowth Movement misses that the West is already in a state resembling degrowth - a Great Stagnation. This state of degrowth and its correlates,...

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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy

Naudé, Wim - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774302

Industrialization under medieval conditions? : global development after COVID-19

Naudé, Wim - 2020

the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …

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Is productive entrepreneurship getting scarcer? : a reflection on the contemporary relevance of Baumol's typology

Minniti, Maria; Naudé, Wim; Stam, Erik - 2023

We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is relevant for explaining the secular decline in business dynamics. To the existing explanations for this decline, we put forward the thesis that entrepreneurship has become less...

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Melancholy hues : the futility of green growth and degrowth, and the inevitability of societal collapse

Naudé, Wim - 2023

kind of economy, which could be as qualitatively different from the current global economy as the industrial world differed … from the hunter-gatherer world. …

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Entrepreneurial recovery from COVID-19: decentralization, democratization, demand, distribution, and demography

Naudé, Wim - 2020

around the world in the fight against COVID-19. This paper, after documenting preliminary evidence on these declines, argues …

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Artificial Intelligence and the discovery of new ideas : is an economic growth explosion imminent?

Almeida, Derick; Naudé, Wim; Sequeira, Tiago Neves - 2024

Theory predicts that global economic growth will stagnate and even come to an end due to slower and eventually negative growth in population. It has been claimed, however, that Artificial Intelligence (AI) may counter this and even cause an economic growth explosion. In this paper, we critically...

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Entrepreneurship Is dangerously obsessed with growth and incompatible with current visions of a post-growth society

Naudé, Wim - 2024

Entrepreneurship scholarship and policy are based on the myth of firm growth as imperative and the related myth of perpetual economic growth. This paper takes issue with the obsession with this growth myth, discussing the dangers it poses. Green growth and sustainable entrepreneurship are...

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Public-private entanglement : entrepreneurship in a hybrid political order, the case of Lebanon

Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2013

The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and...

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"Romanticizing penniless entrepreneurs?" : the relationship between start-ups and human wellbeing across countries

Naudé, Wim; Amorós, José Ernesto; Cristi M., Oscar - 2013

We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three indicators of countries' wellbeing: monetary wellbeing, non-monetary wellbeing and our own indicator of a country's ability to translate economic growth into non-monetary...

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