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...

Dans ce papier nous introduisons les articles composant la rubrique de ce numéro du European Journal of Development Research. Cette rubrique est consacrée aux modèles et déterminants de l’entreprenariat féminin dans les différents pays, et se penche plus particulièrement sur le cas des...

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...