1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450200403321

Autore

Harper David A.

Titolo

Entrepreneurship and the market process : an enquiry into the growth of knowledge / / David A. Harper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996

ISBN

1-134-79160-7

1-280-33346-4

0-203-28836-X

0-203-02239-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (429 p.)

Collana

Foundations of the market economy

Disciplina

338/.04

Soggetti

Entrepreneurship

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-402) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; A BRIEF REVIEW OF POPPERIAN THEORIES OF THE GROWTH OF KNOWLEDGE; THE DIMENSIONS OF THE ENTREPRENEUR'S PROBLEM SITUATION; THE RATIONALITY AND AIM STRUCTURE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR; THE ENTREPRENEUR'S SYSTEM OF THEORIES; INTRODUCING THE FALSIFICATION IS T ENTREPRENEUR; THE TESTING OF ENTREPRENEURIAL CONJECTURES; REFUTATIONS: CAUSES AND DIFFICULTIES; SOME INSIGHTS INTO THE MARKET PROCESS; A POTENTIAL EMPIRICAL TEST OF THE NEW THEORY; AGENDA FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY, AND CONCLUSIONS

BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Enterpreneurship is central to the market process, and yet most theories of it fail to tackle the problem of how economic agents learn from their experience. This book redresses this by systematically applying the ideas of Karl Popper. It treats the entrepeneur as a theorist who develops conjectures which are then tested by exposure to the market, in an effort to eliminate errors. This is a critical aspect of the development of new ventures, as most entrepeneurial ideas turn out to be mistakes, at least in their original form.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785260203321

Autore

Townsend Nicholas

Titolo

Package Deal [[electronic resource] ] : Marriage, Work And Fatherhood In Men'S Lives

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-89619-9

9786612896194

1-4399-0619-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Disciplina

305.31/0973

306.87420973

Soggetti

Fatherhood

Fatherhood -- United States

Fathers

Men -- United States

Middle aged men

Sex role -- United States

Gender & Ethnic Studies

Social Sciences

Gender Studies & Sexuality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Contradictions and Complications; 2. Package Deals and Scripts; 3. The Four Facets of Fatherhood; 4. Marriage: The Women in the Middle; 5. Employment as Fatherhood; 6. Home Ownership: Housing the Family; 7. Fathers of Fathers: Kinship and Gender; 8. Implications; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this important new work, Nicholas Townsend explores what men say about being fathers, and about what fatherhood means to them. He shows how men negotiate the prevailing cultural values about fatherhood, marriage, employment, and home ownership that he conceptualizes as a ""package deal."" Townsend identifies the conflicts



and contradictions within the gendered expectations of men and fathers, and analyzes the social and economic contexts that make emotionally involved fathering an elusive ideal.Drawing on the lives and life stories of a group of men in their late forties who graduated from