An Introduction to Entrepreneurship - Softcover

Eamonn Butler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0255367945 ISBN 13: 9780255367943

Publisher: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2020

Synopsis

Entrepreneurs play a pivotal role in boosting progress, productivity and prosperity. They drive economic growth and create new opportunities. Their innovations transform people s lives. Yet their enormous contribution is not widely understood and is often completely overlooked in economics textbooks. Here, author Eamonn Butler sets the record straight explaining the vital role of entrepreneurship, exploring its economic and social significance, and examining the conditions needed for it to thrive. Along the way, he considers the kind of unusual people who become entrepreneurs. Who knew, for example, that Facebook s Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Uber founder Travis Kalanick all dropped out of university? Or that Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson and IKEA founder Ingvar Kampgrad never went to university at all? An introduction to Entrepreneurship spotlights the strengths of entrepreneurship, whilst acknowledging its shortcomings. It discusses (often-misguided) attempts by governments to foster it. And it eloquently states the case for rehabilitating entrepreneurship into mainstream economics and politics. Above all, it provides an appreciation of and a basic introduction to what entrepreneurship is, why we need it, and how we can encourage it.

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About the Author

Eamonn Butler is Director of the Adam Smith Institute, one of the world s leading policy think tanks. He holds degrees in economics and psychology, a PhD in philosophy, and an honorary DLitt. In the 1970s he worked in Washington for the US House of Representatives, and taught philosophy at Hillsdale College, Michigan, before returning to the UK to help found the Adam Smith Institute. A former winner of the Freedom Medal awarded by Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge and the UK National Free Enterprise Award, Eamonn is currently Secretary of the Mont Pelerin Society.

Eamonn is the author of many books, including introductions to the pioneering economists and thinkers Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, F. A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and Ayn Rand. He has also published primers on classical liberalism, public choice, Magna Carta and the Austrian School of Economics, as well as The Condensed Wealth of Nations, The Best Book on the Market and School of Thought: 101 Great Liberal Thinkers. His Foundations of a Free Society won the 2014 Fisher Prize. He is co-author of Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls, and of a series of books on IQ. He is a frequent contributor to print, broadcast and online media.

Edition details

• Publisher: Institute of Economic Affairs
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0255367945
• ISBN 13: 9780255367943
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146