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The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths is a 2013 book written by Mariana Mazzucato which argues that the United States' economic success is a result of public and state-funded investments in innovation and technology, rather than a result of the small state, free market doctrine that often receives credit for the country's strong economy.
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a 2014 book by the American entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel co-written with Blake Masters.It is a condensed and updated version of a highly popular set of online notes taken by Masters for the CS183 class on startups, as taught by Thiel at Stanford University in Spring 2012.
Social entrepreneurs are creative enough to have a vision of what they want to happen and how to make that vision happen. [21] In their book The Power of Unreasonable People, John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan identify why social entrepreneurs are, as they put it, unreasonable. They argue that these men and women seek profit in social output ...
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement is a 1980 book by economists Milton and Rose D. Friedman, accompanied by a ten-part series broadcast on public television, that advocates free market principles. It was primarily a response to an earlier landmark book and television series The Age of Uncertainty , by the noted economist John Kenneth Galbraith .
A History of Small Business in America (ISBN 0-8057-9824-2) (1992) Blackford, Mansel G., and K. Austin Kerr. Business Enterprise in American History (ISBN 0395351553) (1990) Blaszczyk, Regina Lee, and Philip B. Scranton, eds. Major Problems in American Business History: Documents and Essays (2006) 521 pp. Bryant, Keith L.
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William Drayton (born 1943) is an American social entrepreneur.Drayton was named by U.S. News & World Report as one of America's 25 Best Leaders in 2005. [1] He is responsible for the rise of the phrase "social entrepreneur", [2] a concept first found in print in 1972.
While at Duke, he co-founded Center for Social Entrepreneurship Development (CASE) with Beth Battle Anderson. [5] [6] He chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils on social entrepreneurship and on social innovation. [7] [8] Dees died on December 20, 2013, while at Duke Hospital. [9] [10]