Amar Bhidé

Uncertainty and Enterprise (eBook, ePUB)

Venturing Beyond the Known

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Where does confidence come from, especially when we attempt something new? How do we justify judgments prone to mistake and disagreement? Drawing on more than thirty years of research, Amar Bhidé cuts through esoteric theories and glib "how-tos" to explain the practical ways we cope with uncertainties. Weaving together forgotten insights from the economist Frank Knight and other great twentieth-century thinkers, Bhidé presents a fresh perspective that sheds light on surprising aspects of entrepreneurship, from why startups and giants coexist to how vividly described possibilities help make the imagined real.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197688366
• Artikelnr.: 72247958

Autorenporträt

Amar Bhidé is Professor of Health Policy at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Professor of Business Emeritus at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He has researched and taught about innovation, entrepreneurship, and finance for over three decades. Bhidé is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a founding member of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia, and a founding editor of Capitalism and Society. He is the author of A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy; The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World; The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses; and Of Politics and Economic Reality. He has written numerous articles for the Harvard Business Review; The Wall Street Journal; The New York Times; the Financial Times; and Project Syndicate.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I: Invitation to the Voyage
1. The Offering
2. Uncertainty as Doubt
3. Conjectures about Justification
4. Applications to Enterprise
Part II: Formidable Obstacles, Forgotten Beacons
5. Frank Knight: The Spark That Did Not Ignite
6. Practically Omniscient Microeconomics
7. Imperfect Market Theories: Realism without Fallibility
8. John Maynard Keynes: Help to Distraction
9. Herbert Simon: Faded Guiding Star
10. Daniel Ellsberg's Ambiguity: A Simplifying Side Trip
11. Kahneman and Tversky: Gaining Acceptance, Dropping Uncertainty
12. Richard Thaler and Co.: Building the New Behavioral Boomtowns
Part III: The Specialization of Enterprise
13. Including Uncertainty: Recapitulation and Preview
14. "Bootstrapping" Improvised Startups
15. Calculating Capitalists: VCs and Angels Investors
16. The Evolution of Dynamic Bureaucracies
17. The Dominions of Giants
Part IV: Imaginative Discourse
18. The Aims of Discourse
19. The Devices of Discourse
20. Stories As Side Dishes
21. Spillovers from Popular Stories
Part V: Coda
22. The Case for Widening
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index