{"product_id":"making-poor-nations-rich-9780804757317","title":"Making Poor Nations Rich","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Poor Nations Rich\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 key achievements and remaining economic needs, as well as the assessment of India's prospects for attaining world prominence in trade and culture by Parth J. Shah and Renuka Sane.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Futurist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMaking Poor Nations Rich\u003c\/i\u003e is a serious attempt to further develop the theory of entrepreneurship. Fourteen chapters of the book cover the most important issues of our time: wealth and poverty of nations, the role of entrepreneurship in economic and human development, economic performance of transitional economies with the stories of both winners and losers.\" -- Yuri Maltsev * Carthage College *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a bold quarterback sneak directly into a line of argument in economic development studies that has long been ignored, trivialized or considered impossible to measure. It emphasizes the critical role of entrepreneurship vigorously undertaken in a friendly institutional setting, moving from theoretical analyses to individual and national case studies in countries and regions worldwide.\" -- William Ratliff, Hoover Institution * Stanford University *\u003cbr\u003e\"While previous literature on entrepreneurship focused on how to construct new government programs to promote entrepreneurship, this book turns that theory on its head. This book shows how policies that limit government's scope of action are necessary to promote entrepreneurship. It is a refreshing change, and much more in line with the new and upcoming theories in this area than any previous works on state entrepreneurship policy.\" -- Russell S. Sobel * West Virginia University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I Institutions and Entrepreneurship  2 Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations  Are Rich, and Others Poor  Mancur Olson Jr.                               25  3  Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth  Randall G. Holcombe                            54  4  Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive,  and Destructive  William J. Baumol                              79  5  Economic Freedom and Property Rights:  The Institutional Environment of Productive  Entrepreneurship  Robert A. Lawson                              112  PART II Failures in Entrepreneurial Development  6 The African Development Conundrum  George B. N. Ayittey                           137  7  The Case of Latin America  Alvaro Vargas Llosa                            189  8  Entrepreneurship or Entremanureship? Digging  Through Romania's Institutional Environment  for Transition Lessons  Peter J. Boettke, Christopher]. Coyne,  and Peter T. Leeson                            223  9 Sweden's Slowdown: The Impact of Interventionism  on Entrepreneurship  Dan Johansson                                  250  PART III Reform and Success in Entrepreneurial Development  10 China's March Toward the Market  James A. Dorn                                   283  11 India: The Elephant in the Age of Liberation  Parth J. Shah and Renuka Sane                  309  12 Economic Freedom and Growth: The Case of the  Celtic Tiger  Benjamin Powell                                342  13 Why Have Kiwis Not Become Tigers? Reforms,  Entrepreneurship, and Economic Performance in  New Zealand  Frederic Sautet                                364  14 Look, Botswana: No Hands! Why Botswana's  Government Should Let the Economy Steer Itself  Scott A. Beaulier                               396","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884660732247,"sku":"9780804757317","price":99.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804757317.jpg?v=1722532907","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-poor-nations-rich-9780804757317","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}