Economics and the entrepeneur, via Zero
The invisible actors who had always been responsible for the regeneration of capitalism, who took risks and brought forth new firms to propagate new, better goods and services, slowly emerged from behind the edifice of economic theory that had ignored their role. Today we know of Fred Smith, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, and Sergey Brin. We use their suddenly irreplace able innovations, and celebrate their ingenious creativity. Large numbers of us work in their firms or in new firms that could not exist but for FedEx or eBay. Our children aspire to be entrepreneurs who create new businesses, not middle managers who spend 40 years climbing the ranks of either corporate or public bureaucracies.
This was the third focus of Schumpeter’s lifework: the importance of human initiative by individuals who risked all in pursuit of personal gain, but in so doing operated for the good of the economy. These were his entrepreneurs, the “moving economic force” behind the process of creative destruction.
They ignored old strictures and pushed aside the received ways of doing things and ordering markets, fearlessly setting themselves to the task of disturbing giant corporations by creating new competition. An innovation means nothing, he wrote, without the “forceful personality [and] activity of a leader” that “pushes [the innovation] through” to reality, always conscious of the risks of disgrace, bankruptcy, and failure. Without these entrepreneurs, Schumpeter’s economic heroes, there could be no growth.
Pedro Sette-Câmara
André Azevedo Alves
Carlos Guimarães Pinto
Helder Ferreira
Bruno Garschagen
João Luís Pinto
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Bruno Alves
Miguel Botelho Moniz
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Miguel Noronha
Elizabete Dias
António Costa Amaral (AA)
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Rui Oliveira
BZ
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André Abrantes Amaral
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rui a.
Rodrigo Adão da Fonseca
Adolfo Mesquita Nunes
Michael Seufert
Luciano
Carlos M. Fernandes
Maria João Marques
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Nuno Branco
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Tomás Belchior
Bruno Gonçalves
Ricardo G. Francisco
Tiago Loureiro
Ricardo Campelo de Magalhães
Filipe Faria
Ricardo Arroja
Via Zero??!
Comentário por LPedroMachado — Maio 21, 2008 @ 14:25
Ah, ignorem e/ou apaguem o comentário acima.
Comentário por LPedroMachado — Maio 21, 2008 @ 14:26