Economics Questions

Re: Promoters vs Entrepreneurs

nirgrahamUK — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:41:22 GMT

Mises explicitly warned against the dire consequences of

confusing what he called the “methodological makeshift” or “imaginary construction” of

the pure entrepreneur with the richer conception of what he called the “promoter

entrepreneur,” formulated to capture the fullness of entrepreneurial action in the real

market process. This latter concept, which has been re-dubbed the “integral

entrepreneur” for the purposes of this paper, is delineated and contrasted with the

Kirznerian pure entrepreneur in section 4.

Re: Promoters vs Entrepreneurs

Lohengram — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:37:52 GMT

nirgrahamUK:

Seems like Salerno has a working paper on exactly this topic.

http://mises.org/journals/scholar/salerno4.pdf

I haven't read the entire article I admit, but after briefly looking through it, it doesn't seem to say anything about the difference betwen the idea of a promoter vs Entrepreneur. It seems to focus on the difference between an Entrepreneur and a Manager which is an entirely different matter.

Re: Promoters vs Entrepreneurs

nirgrahamUK — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:48:51 GMT

Seems like Salerno has a working paper on exactly this topic.

http://mises.org/journals/scholar/salerno4.pdf

Re: Promoters vs Entrepreneurs

Rubén — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:04:29 GMT

This is a very interesting question. Promoters and entrepreneurs, in any case, are people badly needed with lots of ideas and strive to get us out of the global recession!

Promoters vs Entrepreneurs

Lohengram — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:07:07 GMT

Hello, I was wondering if anyone could give a clear distinction between the Misean idea of the "Promoter" and an Entrepreneur. Is there a real difference between these 2 are did Mises just dislike the term Entrepreneur and favour the term Promoter or did he mean more by the term Promoter than is generally attributed to the term Entrepreneur?