Knowledge and Entrepreneurship in Public Policy

Understanding entrepreneurship as alertness to potential profit opportunities and the activities involved with bringing those opportunities to life and public policy as laws, regulations, and activities of government, this volume analyzes the intersection of the two to show how public policy influences entrepreneurship. Using a mix of theoretical and applied research, the contributors argue that policies which incentivize productive entrepreneurship will advance economic well-being, but that the passage of such policies depends in large part on the availability and usage of economic knowledge by policymakers. If policymakers lack the relevant economic knowledge to achieve their desired outcomes, policies will be ineffective in incentivizing productive entrepreneurship.

Contents

Chapter 1: Framing Our Thinking About Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
Abigail R. Hall 

Chapter 2: Moral Entrepreneurship: Integrating Equity within Antimicrobial Resistance Innovation
Ximena Benavides 

Chapter 3: Successful Evasive Entrepreneurship: Nature or Circumstance? Three Case Studies in the Area of Health and Safety Regulation
Alexander Köhler 

Chapter 4: Exploring the Persistent Effects of Racial Discrimination on Entrepreneurship and Growth
Olivia Gonzalez 

Chapter 5: “Hot Money”: A Hayekian Process of Polycentric Public Entrepreneurship in Currency Formation in Great Depression North Carolina
Thomas Storrs 

Chapter 6: Sub-Innovation: The Case of Fraccionamiento in Mexico
Carlos Noyola 

Chapter 7: Exploring the Interplay of Taxation and Regulation in Institutional Arrangements
Dallin Overstreet 

Chapter 8: Representation, Taxation, and Policy Entrepreneurship
Natalia Pushkareva 

Chapter 9: Knowledge and the Efficacy of Energy Efficiency Programs
Arthur R. Wardle 

Chapter 10: Majority Opinions and the Entrepreneurial Pursuit of Judicial Power
Christian McGuire 

Chapter 11: Urban Deindustrialization and Its Discontents: A Commentary on the Social Policy Education of President Barack Obama
Michael Lachanski