Entrepreneurship: Ideology and Contingencies

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is the defining characteristic of economic change and development. It is, as the mainstream economic theory presumes, the most exalted expression of an individual's self-interest, talent, and self-esteem as well as of the structural institutionalization, organization, and dynamism of productive and distributive superstructures. However, despite the hypothetical separation between entrepreneurship and capital, the fusion of the two is inevitable.