Table of Contents

Foreword; Introduction; What is a Firm, & How is it Organized?; What is Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship: The Empirical Picture; The Role of Entrepreneurship in the Competence Structure; The Importance of Entrepreneurship for Aggregate Economic Development; Entrepreneurship in Mainstream Growth Theory; The Importance of Entrepreneurship: The Empirical Evidence; Supply of & Demand for Entrepreneurship; The Entrepreneurs Compensation & Entrepreneurial Rents; Entrepreneurship & Economic Policy: Basic Points of Departure; Entrepreneurship & Economic Policy: Measures; Entrepreneurship & Economic Policy: Taxes; Summary & Conclusions; Index.

About the Author

Magnus Henrekson is a professor and president of the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN). Until 2009, he held the Jacob Wallenberg Research Chair in the Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. He received his PhD in 1990 at the Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law with his dissertation An Economic Analysis of Swedish Government Expenditure. Mikael Stenkula holds a PhD from the School of Economics and Management at Lund University. He received his PhD in 2004 with his dissertation Essays on Network Effects and Money. After having worked as a lecturer at Lund University for a year, where he taught microeconomics, he joined the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) in the fall of 2005. His main area of research is entrepreneurship economics.