This article provides a survey of a growing body of empirical evidence that points toward the
important long-term effects that historic events can have on economic development. The …

This chapter surveys a growing body of evidence showing the impacts that historical events
can have on current economic development. Over the past two decades historical …

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While
that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities …

A new and very simple mechanism to explain why natural resource abundance may lower
income and welfare is developed. In a model with rent seeking, a greater amount of natural …

This paper provides an introduction to this special issue of Small Business Economics
dealing with the (long-postponed) integration of entrepreneurship into the discipline of …

Natural resource‐abundant countries constitute both growth losers and growth winners, and
the main difference between the success cases and the cases of failure lies in the quality of …

In this chapter, we review the recent literature on conflict and appropriation. Allowing for the
possibility of conflict, which amounts to recognizing the possibility that property rights are not …

We provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is
provided by the capabilities approach (CA). Hence we extend not only the conceptualisation …

This paper provides an endogenous growth model to illuminate the role of entrepreneurial
start-up firms in structural economic transformation. We follow the Lewis-model distinction …

What is the role of entrepreneurship in economic development? At a minimum the answer
should be able to explain the role of entrepreneurs in the structural transformation of …