A Cold War Perspective on the Transition of Outer-Space Economics from Public Affairs to a Capitalist Spaceflight Entrepreneurship

Roşca Vlad I.
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Roşca Vlad I.: Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti

Revista OEconomica, 2019, issue 04

Abstract: Claims for private spaceflight initiatives, in other words for a “cosmic entrepreneurship”, have been recorded in the scientific papers ever since the 1970s, but it was only in May 2002, with the establishment of SpaceX, that a business operating on a free competitional market truly dared to rupture the monopoly of government-funded national space agencies.

Keywords: space entrepreneurship; cosmic entrepreneurship; outer space economics; market liberalization; privatization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 B15 B21 B22 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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