ABSTRACT
This book began with a taxonomy of who entrepreneurs are and what they do, according to how they have been exposited in economic literature. Now that we have concluded our historical survey, we can complete the taxonomy by associating certain writers with specific themes, mindful that significant overlap exists between writers and themes. To recapitulate, the various roles taken on by the entrepreneur in economics literature are:
1 The entrepreneur is the person who assumes the risk associated with uncertainty (Cantillon, von Thünen, von Mangoldt, Mill, Hawley, Knight, von Mises, Cole, Shackle).
