TY - JOUR
T1 - Discovering rhetoric
T2 - The ecology of enterprise in the Bourgeois Era
AU - Martin, Adam
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - Deirdre McCloskey's Bourgeois Dignity deploys Israel Kirzner's theory of entrepreneurial discovery in her explanation of the Industrial Revolution. This essay examines whether Kirzner's theory can bear the analytical load that McCloskey would place on it. I identify two potential incongruities between Kirzner's theory and McCloskey's historical account but find them both unconvincing. Kirzner's entrepreneur is a good fit for McCloskey's story. I argue further that the fit can be strengthened by incorporating further elements of Kirzner's theory, including entrepreneurial alertness.
AB - Deirdre McCloskey's Bourgeois Dignity deploys Israel Kirzner's theory of entrepreneurial discovery in her explanation of the Industrial Revolution. This essay examines whether Kirzner's theory can bear the analytical load that McCloskey would place on it. I identify two potential incongruities between Kirzner's theory and McCloskey's historical account but find them both unconvincing. Kirzner's entrepreneur is a good fit for McCloskey's story. I argue further that the fit can be strengthened by incorporating further elements of Kirzner's theory, including entrepreneurial alertness.
KW - Austrian economics
KW - Entrepreneurship
KW - Industrial revolution
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84871715013&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.socec.2012.05.002
DO - 10.1016/j.socec.2012.05.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84871715013
VL - 41
SP - 757
EP - 762
JO - Journal of Socio-Economics
JF - Journal of Socio-Economics
SN - 1053-5357
IS - 6
ER -