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Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Economic Development

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Description for Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Economic Development Paperback. Making Poor Nations Rich illustrates the importance of institutions that support economic freedom and private property rights for promoting the form of productive entrepreneurship that leads to sustained increases in countries' standard of living. Editor(s): Powell, Benjamin. Num Pages: 480 pages, 35 tables, 24 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QFG; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 662.

Why do some nations become rich while others remain poor? Traditional mainstream economic growth theory has done little to answer this question—during most of the twentieth century the theory focused on models that assumed growth was a simple function of labor, capital, and technology. Through a collection of case studies from Asia and Africa to Latin America and Europe, Making Poor Nations Rich argues for examining the critical role entrepreneurs and the institutional environment of private property rights and economic freedom play in economic development.

Making Poor Nations Rich begins by explaining how entrepreneurs create economic growth and why ... Read more

The overall lesson from this volume is clear: pro-market reforms are essential to promoting the productive entrepreneurship that leads to economic growth. In countries where this institutional environment is lacking, sustained economic development will remain illusive.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Number of Pages
479
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804757324
SKU
V9780804757324
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Benjamin Powell (Ed.)
Benjamin Powell is Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation at the Independent Institute and Assistant Professor of Economics at San Jose State University.

Reviews for Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Economic Development
"The book concludes with encouraging success stories from nations in Asia (China, India), Europe (Ireland), and even Africa (Botswana), whose economic achievement illustrates Powell's belief that encouraging small-business entrepreneurs is the best way to achieve and maintain general affluence... The writing here is vivid and intelligent. Futurists will be particularly interested in the essays by James A. Dorn on China's ... Read more

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