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Entrepreneurship

By Russell S. Sobel

An entrepreneur is someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise. An entrepreneur is an agent of change. Entrepreneurship is the process of discovering new ways of combining resources. When the market value generated by this new combination of resources is greater than the market val...

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Innovation

By Timothy Sandefur

“ Innovation”: creativity; novelty; the process of devising a new idea or thing, or improving an existing idea or thing. Although the word carries a positive connotation in American culture, innovation, like all human activities, has costs as well as benefits. These costs and benefits have preoccupied econo...

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Lawrence H. White

Demsetz, Harold

1930 - 2019

Prisoners’ Dilemma

Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff

Marginalism

Steven E. Rhoads

Housing

Benjamin Powell and Edward Stringham

Hyperinflation

Michael K. Salemi

Experimental Economics

Don Coursey

Demand

David R. Henderson

Say, Jean-Baptiste

1767 - 1832

Fisher, Irving

1867 - 1947

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Introduction Here are ten fundamental ideas to help you explore and understand the world around us using the economic way of thinking. I've written an essay on each idea and listed some reading and listening suggestions if you want to learn more. The essays are all written for a beginner but some of the ideas are su...

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