Entrepreneurship and the market process
Subtitle: an enquiry into the growth of knowledge
By: David A. Harper.
Series: Foundations of the market economy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
Subjects: Popper, Karl Raimund, Sir, 1902-; Entrepreneurship
Description: Entrepreneurship is central to the market process, and yet most theories on the subject fail to tackle the problem of how economic agents learn from their experience. This book redresses this by systematically applying the ideas of Karl Popper. It treats the entrepreneur as a theorist who develops conjectures which are then tested by exposure to the market, in an effort to eliminate errors.

This is a critical aspect of the development of new ventures, as most entrepreneurial ideas turn out to be mistakes, at least in their original form.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-402) and index.