 What entrepreneurship is really “productive”? An alternative view on Baumol's typologyDmitrii Trubnikov Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2021, vol. 16, issue C Abstract: The paper aims to contribute to the discussion on “productive, unproductive, and destructive” entrepreneurship started by William Baumol. It supports the position that all three categories in Baumol's typology are important to understand how institutions affect entrepreneurship but advocates for an alternative approach to distinguish among them. While the traditional demarcation is often based on the net effect on productivity, the proposed approach focuses on the public choice reasoning that not only distinguishes between “rent-seeking” and “profit-seeking,” but also emphasizes that rent-seeking should not be considered a pure transfer. Rent-seeking not only affects regulatory decisions, it also generates activities in the sphere that is traditionally perceived in the productive side. It is important to take this sphere into account when welfare implications of regulatory initiatives are discussed and when policymakers aim to stimulate “productive” entrepreneurship. Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Institutions; Regulation; Public choice; Rent-seeking (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jobuve:v:16:y:2021:i:c:s2352673421000366 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2021.e00258 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Venturing Insights is currently edited by Dimo Dimov More articles in Journal of Business Venturing Insights from Elsevier |
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