February 9, 2007Entrepreneurs as Heroes
Johan Norberg’s talk “Entrepreneurs Are the Heroes of the World,” which offers a peek at his forthcoming book, is now available online. I heard him give it at a Cato Institute event last year and I can say it’s even better heard than read. Posted by Tom Palmer at February 9, 2007 9:10 PM | TrackBackComments
Glad to see others talk about entrepreneurs as heroes. I have done some resarch on this as well. The links are below. The Creative-Destroyers: Are Entrepreneurs Mythological Heroes? (Presented at the annual meetings of the Western Economic Association, July 1992). http://www.geocities.com/cyrilmorong@sbcglobal.net/ENTREPRENEUR.htm Posted by: Cyril Morong at February 10, 2007 12:42 PMIt's an extremely good talk (I only have the transcript); I will be recommending it in the econ classes I'm teaching. Posted by: Charles N. Steele at February 14, 2007 7:25 PMCharles, Glad to see that you will be using this in your classes. Do you know Israel Kirzner? (I see that you go your Ph. D. at New York University) Although I have not met him, reading his work on entrepreneurship was instrumental in getting me interested in the entrepreneurship/hero connections. In one of his books he said something like "entrepreneurs discover opportunities for economic profit by leading a life of purposeful action." That made me think of "following your bliss." Campbell even uses the phrase "creation and destruction" to describe what the hero does. Cyril Posted by: Cyril Morong at February 15, 2007 11:49 PM |
