The Entrepreneur in Rule-Based Economics [electronic resource] : Theory, Empirical Practice, and Policy Design /
Blind, Georg D.author.
This volume brings together three areas of interest: the rule-based approach, the entrepreneur, and Japan as an empirical application. It highlights the advantages of the rule-based approach for economic analysis by linking different methodological underpinnings. Using these, the author exemplifies how rule-based economics allows a systematic analysis of the entrepreneur as the key figure in bringing about economic change and diversity. The book includes an empirical methodology for applied research in rule-based economics, which it puts to the test in an empirical study of entrepreneurship in contemporary Japan. The choice of entrepreneurship and Japan showcases the integrative power that rule-based economics brings to further breaking a theoretical deadlock and to analytically capturing a very particular economy investigated very little so far. By offering a body of new and original research, the monograph shows how the idea of entrepreneurship as a rule helps to resolve the Schumpeter-Kirzner divide and to develop an empirical approach to the determinants of entrepreneurial activity.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Part I   A Theory of Entrepreneurship Through the Rule-Based Approach -- The rule-based approach in the analysis of economic change -- The rule-based economy and the function of the entrepreneur -- The entrepreneurial process in terms of rules -- Part II  The Rule-Based Approach in Empirics: A Methodological Sketch -- Construction of empirical models: the system of factor rules (SFR) -- Changing and meta-stable sub-systems (CSS and MSSS) -- Analysis of the CSS: Developing and testing of hypotheses -- The RBA methodology in practice: An exemplar -- Part III   Entrepreneurship in Japan: 1992-2012 -- Assembling the model:  The system of factor rules (SFR) -- Reducing the model: extracting the changing sub-system (CSS) -- Putting the model to work -- Analysis of changing sub-system -- Interpretation of findings -- Part IV  Conclusion -- Summary of findings and research outlook -- Policy implications -- The RBA in empirical practice: effective tool for theory building.
This volume brings together three areas of interest: the rule-based approach, the entrepreneur, and Japan as an empirical application. It highlights the advantages of the rule-based approach for economic analysis by linking different methodological underpinnings. Using these, the author exemplifies how rule-based economics allows a systematic analysis of the entrepreneur as the key figure in bringing about economic change and diversity. The book includes an empirical methodology for applied research in rule-based economics, which it puts to the test in an empirical study of entrepreneurship in contemporary Japan. The choice of entrepreneurship and Japan showcases the integrative power that rule-based economics brings to further breaking a theoretical deadlock and to analytically capturing a very particular economy investigated very little so far. By offering a body of new and original research, the monograph shows how the idea of entrepreneurship as a rule helps to resolve the Schumpeter-Kirzner divide and to develop an empirical approach to the determinants of entrepreneurial activity.
Evolutionary economics.
Entrepreneurship.
Economic policy.
Economics.
Social sciences
Ethnology-Asia.
Institutional/Evolutionary Economics.
Entrepreneurship.
Economic Policy.
Political Economy/Economic Systems.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Asian Culture.