Entrepreneurship, Management, and the Structure of Payoffs

by William J. Baumol

Book Overview

Baumol studies the effect of the allocation of entrepreneurs between productive and unproductive activities on an economy's performance. Although it is admittedly difficult to theorize and make predictions on the innovative behavior and supply of entrepreneurs, William Baumol shows that by usually failing to incorporate entrepreneurship in their growth models, economists have omitted what can be a key contributor to economic growth. In this book Baumol...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262023601
• ISBN13: 9780262023603
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher