{"product_id":"the-capitalist-and-the-entrepreneur-douglas-french-9781478393733","title":"The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur (Large Print Edition): Essays on Organizations and Markets","description":"LARGE PRINT EDITION  More at LargePrintLiberty.com. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEntrepreneurship is a hot topic in academic, managerial, and policy circles. Yet researchers and policymakers tend to define entrepreneurship narrowly as business start-ups, and entrepreneurs as young dreamers with a particular personality.In fact, as Peter G. Klein argues, entrepreneurship is a far broader, pervasive, and more important phenomenon in the market and in the free society.Klein is one of the stars of the Austrian School today, with a specialization in an area in which the Austrians make a unique contribution: the entrepreneur's role society as the driving force of the market. The last major work on this topic appeared in 1973 with Kirzner's own book on entrepreneurship. Klein's own book, as Peter Lewin has written, offers \"a fresh, immensely revealing perspective.\"In \u003ci\u003eCapitalists and Entrepreneurs\u003c\/i\u003e, Klein rehabilitates and expands the classical concept of the entrepreneur as a judgmental decision-maker, linking the capitalist-investor and the entrepreneur-promoter. Building on foundations laid by the Austrian school of economics, Frank Knight's theory of uncertainty, and the modern economics of organization, Klein shows how an entrepreneurial perspective sheds light on firm size and structure, corporate governance and control, mergers and acquisitions, organizational design, and a host of managerial and financial problems.He also offers a reinterpretation of the modern Austrian school and a critique of the \"opportunity-discovery\" perspective in modern entrepreneurship studies. In a series of shorter essays he tackles the economics of the Internet, network theory, the socialism of the intellectual class, the financial crisis, and the contributions of Carl Menger, F. A. Hayek, and Oliver Williamson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Douglas French, Peter G. Klein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478393734\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478393733\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarge Print\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Douglas French","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44634501742847,"sku":"9781478393733","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_af316850-d496-4105-b58e-cd5f0d23947d.jpg?v=1703589659","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-capitalist-and-the-entrepreneur-douglas-french-9781478393733","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}