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Author:   Saras Sarasvathy ,  Nicholas Dew ,  Sankaran Venkataraman (University of Virginia, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.970kg
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9781138061989

ISBN 10:   1138061980
Pages:   570
Publication Date:   12 May 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Preface 1. Primer Part 1: Motivation 1. Introduction: A pluralistic approach to entrepreneurship research 2. The Sciences of the Artificial (Herbert A. Simon) 3. Three Varieties of Knowledge (Donald Davidson) 4. The Market as a Creative Process (James M. Buchanan and Viktor J. Vanberg) Part 2: Maker 5. Introduction: Entrepreneurial Agency 6. Bounding Rationality to the World (Peter M. Todd and GerdGigerenzer) 7. Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought (George Lakoff and Mark Johnson) 8. The Construction of Preference (Paul Slovic) 9. The Technology of Foolishness (James March) 10. Great Men, Great Thoughts, and the Environment (William James) Part 3: Making 11. Entrepreneurial Process 12. Words, Works, Worlds, Ways of Worldmaking (Nelson Goodman) 13. Competition as a Discovery Procedure (F.A. Hayek) 14. The Transactional Self (Jerome Bruner) 15. The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm (S. J. Gould and R. C. Lewontin) 16. The Coasian and Knightian Theories of the Firm (Donald J. Boudreaux and Randall G. Holcombe) Part 4: Made 17. Introduction: Entrepreneurial Outcomes 17. The State of Humanity (Julian L. Simon) 18. From the Past to the Future (Julian L. Simon) 19. The Possibility of Social Choice (Amartya Sen) 20. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs In The West And Fails Everywhere Else (Hernando De Soto) 21. Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems (Elinor Ostrom) 22. Social Attitudes, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (Alexander Gerschenkron) Part 5: Method 23. Studying entrepreneurship as a three-legged artifact 24. Economics as a Historical Science (Herbert A. Simon) 25. The Art and Science of Cause and Effect (Judea Pearl) 26. Conceptual Metaphor in Everyday Language (George Lakoff and Mark Johnson) 27. Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Richard Rorty) 28. What Pragmatism Means (William James) 29. Conclusion: Creative Powers of a Free Civilization (F.A. Hayek)

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Saras D. Sarasvathy is Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia, USA and Jamuna Raghavan Chair Professor in Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Nicholas Dew is Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School, USA. Sankaran Venkataraman is the MasterCard Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia, USA.

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