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<p>Foreword ix</p> <p>Introduction  xiii</p> <p><b>Chapter 1. From Term to Concept: the Entrepreneur and his Economic Function  1</b></p> <p>1.1. Etymological and conceptual bases of the entrepreneur 1</p> <p>1.2. The gradual recognition of the role of entrepreneurship  8</p> <p>1.3. From a society of salary-earners to one of entrepreneurs? 9</p> <p>1.4. Current definitions of entrepreneurship, or the institutional recognition of the entrepreneur  17</p> <p>1.5. The plural entrepreneur  19</p> <p><b>Chapter 2. Quantifying Entrepreneurship, Understanding the Entrepreneurial Role  21</b></p> <p>2.1. Basic principles: the OECD’s model  21</p> <p>2.2. The main entrepreneurship indicators 24</p> <p>2.2.1. Eurostat indicators  24</p> <p>2.2.2. OECD and Eurostat indicators 24</p> <p>2.2.3. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor indicators 25</p> <p>2.2.4. World Bank indicators and the business climate  28</p> <p>2.2.5. The official quantification of business creation in France: the Business Creation Observatory  29</p> <p>2.3. The European Union’s inclusive policy to promote entrepreneurship 30</p> <p>2.4. Supporting entrepreneurship in developing countries: the ambitions of the United Nations (UN) and the United States  31</p> <p><b>Chapter 3. Classical Economics of the Entrepreneur 35</b></p> <p>3.1. Richard Cantillon: an economic agent with uncertain income 35</p> <p>3.2. Anne Robert Jacques Turgot: the “progress” of the capitalist entrepreneur 36</p> <p>3.3. François Quesnay, the manufacturing and commercial entrepreneur belongs to the sterile class 38</p> <p>3.4. Pietro Verri and Cesare Beccaria, the inspiration for Jean-Baptiste Say? 38</p> <p>3.5. Adam Smith: sympathy for initiative, but distrust of project creators 40</p> <p>3.6. Jean-Baptiste Say: intermediary between scholar and laborer 42</p> <p>3.7. Karl Marx, entrepreneur or officer of capital 46</p> <p>3.8. Jean-Gustave Courcelle Seneuil, economistentrepreneur or entrepreneur-economist?  47</p> <p>3.9. The marginalists’ faux pas or Léon Walras’s ghost entrepreneur 51</p> <p>3.10. Alfred Marshall, division of industry into entrepreneurial and managerial businesses  56</p> <p>3.11. Werner Sombart and Max Weber, the entrepreneur or the spirit of capitalism 58</p> <p>3.12. Joseph A. Schumpeter: the entrepreneur’s “new combinations of production factors” 60</p> <p>3.13. John Maynard Keynes: the animal spirit of the entrepreneur  65</p> <p>3.14. From uncertainty to ignorance: Ludwig von Mises, Franck Knight and Friedrich Hayek 67</p> <p>3.15. Creating or detecting opportunities? 69</p> <p><b>Chapter 4. Contemporary Theories of the Entrepreneur 73</b></p> <p>4.1. From entrepreneur to industrial economy 73</p> <p>4.2. Ronald Coase, or the entrepreneur on the frontier of industrial economics 75</p> <p>4.3. William Baumol, the entrepreneur and the Prince of Denmark 77</p> <p>4.4. Mark Casson: entrepreneurship – an alternative to employment?  79</p> <p>4.5. Scott Shane or the genetic theory of the entrepreneur  83</p> <p>4.6. Entrepreneur, innovation, territory and social networks 85</p> <p>4.7. Mark Granovetter – from social integration to weighted networks  88</p> <p>4.8. Towards an evolutionist theory of the entrepreneur, or the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship  90</p> <p><b>Chapter 5. Towards a Socioeconomics of the Entrepreneur: An Overview 93</b></p> <p>5.1. The 13 keywords of the economics of the entrepreneur 93</p> <p>5.2. On the entrepreneur’s personality: the player and the system 95</p> <p>5.3. Resource potential and the social integration of the entrepreneur  100</p> <p>5.4. Overall picture of the theory of the entrepreneur 103</p> <p>Conclusion 109</p> <p>Bibliography  111</p> <p>Index 123</p>

<strong>Sophie BOUTILLIER</strong>, Université du Littoral, France. <p><strong>Dimitri UZUNIDIS</strong>, Research Network on Innovation (RNI).

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