Freedom to plan : on Kapp's institutional outlook / Michele Cangiani -- Political democracy and social costs : reading K.W. Kapp's "Political economy" today / Regine Heidenreich -- Social costs, social rights and the limits of free market capitalism : a re-reading of Kapp / Maurizio Franzini --...

"We use two micro data sets that collect harmonized data across countries to investigate the effects of regulation on new businesses. We are able to distinguish between two types of entrepreneurs: those who start a business to pursue a business opportunity and those who start a business because...