The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur by Klein, Peter G. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Image Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword by Doug French Introduction 1. Economic Calculation and the Limits of Organization

The Textbook Theory of the Firm Coase and Transaction Costs Economic Calculation and the Limits to Firm Size Alternative Austrian Approaches Conclusion

2. Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance

Limits of the Standard Approach to the Firm Two Alternative Perspectives The Contractual Approach Building Blocks of an Austrian Theory of the Firm Capital Markets Toward an Austrian Theory of Corporate Governance Conclusions

3. Do Entrepreneurs Make Predictable Mistakes?

Entrepreneurship, Profit, and Loss Mergers, Sell-offs, and Efficiency: Theory and Evidence Are Divestitures Predictable? Evidence from a Duration Study Conclusions

4. The Entrepreneurial Organization of Heterogeneous Capital

Entrepreneurship, Judgment, and Asset Ownership Capital Theory and the Theory of the Firm The Attributes Approach to Capital Heterogeneity Organizing Heterogeneous Capital Concluding Discussion

5. Opportunity Discovery and Entrepreneurial Action

6. Risk, Uncertainty, and Economic Organization

Knight, Mises, and Mises on Probability Uncertainty and the Entrepreneur Conclusion

7. Price Theory and Austrian Economics

8. Commentary

A Government Did Invent the Internet, But the Market Made it Glorious B Networks, Social Production, and Private Property C Why Intellectuals Still Support Socialism D Management Theory and the Business Cycle E Menger the Revolutionary F Hayek the Innovator G Williamson and the Austrians

References Notes Index About the Author