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The Allocation of Entrepreneurial Talent and Destructive Entrepreneurship

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  • Sanders, Mark
  • Weitzel, Utz

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Entrepreneurship is generally regarded as a force of change, innovation, and development in modern economies. Entrepreneurs bring new and better products to markets, restore allocative efficiency through arbitrage and reinvest their profits. However,

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Paper provided by World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) in its series Working Papers with number wp2010-46.

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Date of creation: 2010
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Keywords: destructive entrepreneurship; allocation of talent; development; institutions;

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