HUMANE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

This treatise defines humane to mean that which is natural to human beings. It then suggests that much of the economic activity and many of the structures of modern business are inhumane. In response to this possibility, the book examines the nature of the humane in society and business and reviews the literature, beliefs, and standards of human behavior that would lead to the growth of a truly humane economy. Questions are raised about the virtue of current structure and practice. A strikingly positive proposition underlies the critique: new entrepreneurial ventures are by their nature humane. The way to make the economy and the practice of business more humane is not to encourage a routinized script of business ethics but instead to permit entrepreneurs to follow their desire to create and to build. This desire is natural to human beings and therefore deeply humane.

Contents:

• Foreword
• About the Authors
• Introduction: The Problem
• A Humane World:
  • Humaneness: Definition and Context
  • The Race Toward a Humane Economy
  • Human Welfare and the Whole Person
  • The Roots of Humanism
• Humane and Wise Ventures:
  • Humane Ventures, Natural Liberty, and Undertaking
  • Wise Ventures and Wise Men
  • Entrepreneurial Instinct: Keynes vs Schumpeter
• Humane Entrepreneurship at the Personal Level:
  • The Entrepreneur as an Existential Being
  • Experience as Truth: The Phenomenology of Entrepreneurship
  • The Meaning of an Entrepreneurial Pilgrimage
  • Internalizing Moral Markets: Solving the 'Smith Problem'
• Non-Random Thoughts on Humaneness:
  • The Power of Wise Leadership
  • The Rise and Fall of Responsible Innovation
  • Beauty, Humaneness, and the Object of Economic Behavior
• Humane Scale: The Structure of Humane Endeavor:
  • Powerful Machines and Humane Growth
  • Managerial Capitalism: Statism and Giantism
  • A Humane Economy
• Concluding Thoughts
• Index

Readership: Graduate students and academics specializing in entrepreneurship.

Key Features:

• The book draws extensively on classical literature to support its propositions
• The book represents the first in-depth examination of the critical role of entrepreneurship in creating a human economy