In this collection of a dozen of his previously published recent articles on entrepreneurship in revised form, Casson (economics, U. of Reading, UK) provides an updated account of underlying
economic theory and its practical applications to behavior and policy formation. Viewing entrepreneurship from an integrated social science perspective that regards knowledge as a global public
good, he notes the gap between mainstream economists' history of marginalization of this role in competitive markets and its actual influence. The author treats the consequences of this
discrepancy; develops a formal model of the impact of entrepreneurship on macroeconomic performance; and examines the role of networks in the theory of entrepreneurship, and the cultural
embeddedness of entrepreneurship in global brand and entrepreneurial state contexts. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
