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Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: should they go it alone, or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business More than just financial rewards are at stake. Friendships and relationships can suffer. Bad decisions at the incep

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Whether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs - and their innovations - have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. This title gathers together economic historians to explore the entrepreneur's role in society from antiquity to the present.

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Looks at the ways governments have supported entrepreneurs and venture capitalists across decades and continents. This title provides insights into why some public initiatives work while others are hobbled by pitfalls, and offers suggestions for how public ventures should be implemented.

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Developing a new idea requires money, which poses a problem of trust. This title proposes a legal theory of economic growth that details how property, contract, and business laws help to unite capital and ideas. It demonstrates why ineffective private and business laws are the root cause of the poverty of nations in today's world.

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For much of the twentieth century, American corporations led the world in terms of technological progress. Why did certain industries have such great success Experimental Capitalism examines six key industries--automobiles, pneumatic tires, television receivers, semiconductors, lasers, and penicillin--and tracks the highs and lows of American high

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In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were outside the mainstream--and how the commercializa

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Sustained growth depends on innovation, whether it's cutting-edge software from Silicon Valley, an improved assembly line in Sichuan, or a new export market for Swaziland's leather. This title proposes a legal theory of economic growth that details how effective property, contract, and business laws help to unite capital and ideas.

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Recent surveys show that more than half of American entrepreneurs share ownership in their business startups rather than going it alone. Yet the media and many scholars continue to perpetuate the myth of the lone visionary who single-handedly revolutionizes the marketplace. In The Entrepreneurial Group, Martin Ruef shatters this myth, demonstrating

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Entrepreneurs are widely recognized for the vital contributions they make to economic growth and general welfare. This title provides the framework for introducing entrepreneurship into mainstream microtheory and incorporating the activities of entrepreneurs, inventors, and managers into standard models of the firm.

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Many warn that the next stage of globalization - the offshoring of research and development to China and India - threatens the foundations of Western prosperity. This title shows how wrong the doomsayers are. It explains why know-how developed abroad enhances the prosperity at home.