The bottom-up power of informal entrepreneurship / José Ernesto Amors, Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian, Oscar Cristi and Maria Minniti -- Estimating the size of the shadow economies of 162 countries using MIMIC method / Friedrich Schneider -- The components and determinants of the shadow economy :...

Portraying how entrepreneurs often start out conducting some or all of their trade on an 'off-the-books' basis and how many continue to do so once they become established, this book provides the first detailed account of the vast and ubiquitous hidden enterprise culture existing in the...