Table of contents - Special Issue: Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive – 25 Years On
Guest Editors: Dr Alexandre Padilla
Baumol’s productive and unproductive entrepreneurship after 25 years
Peter J. Boettke, Ennio Piano– The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact of Baumol’s work on entrepreneurship has had on framing the economic development puzzle.
Productive versus unproductive entrepreneurship: Industry formation and state economic growth
Stephan F. Gohmann, Bradley K. Hobbs, Myra J. McCrickardThe purpose of this paper is to examine the correlation between the degree of economic freedom in state institutions and industry employment and then determine how these…
Indirectly productive entrepreneurship
Alexandre Padilla, Nicolás CachanoskySince Baumol (1990), the economic literature has distinguished between two broad categories of entrepreneurship: productive and unproductive. The purpose of this paper is to…
Two sides to the evasion: The Pirate Bay and the interdependencies of evasive entrepreneurship
Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson, Joakim WernbergEvasive entrepreneurs innovate by circumventing or disrupting existing formal institutional frameworks. Since such evasions rarely go unnoticed, they usually lead to responses…
The substance of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurship of substances
Raymond J. March, Adam G. Martin, Audrey RedfordThe purpose of this paper is to clarify the distinctions and complementary of William Baumol and Israel Kirzner’s classifications of and insights into entrepreneurship, and thus…
Unproductive entrepreneurship in US military contracting
Christopher J. Coyne, Courtney Michaluk, Rachel ReeseUS military contracting has been plagued by systematic corruption, fraud, and waste during both times of peace and war. These outcomes result from the inherent features of the US…
Destructive entrepreneurship and the security context: Program design considerations for disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) and counterinsurgency
Sameeksha Desai– The purpose of this paper is to deliver insight from the concept of destructive entrepreneurship to program design considerations in conflict regions.
