Prerequisite: Junior Standing, 'C-' or better in MGMT 201.
The entrepreneur has been reviled as a social parasite and cheered as a moral hero. Through an examination of some classic works on entrepreneurship and the writings of our guest speakers, in Ethics, Economics, and Entrepreneurship we will take up three main questions: Who is the entrepreneur - that is, what activities or characteristics make one an entrepreneur?; Why did the entrepreneur largely disappear from intellectual discourse in the middle 20th century?; How ought we to evaluate the entrepreneur morally - and does the answer depend upon who we understand the entrepreneur to be?
The entrepreneur has been reviled as a social parasite and cheered as a moral hero. Through an examination of some classic works on entrepreneurship and the writings of our guest speakers, in Ethics, Economics, and Entrepreneurship we will take up three main questions: Who is the entrepreneur - that is, what activities or characteristics make one an entrepreneur?; Why did the entrepreneur largely disappear from intellectual discourse in the middle 20th century?; How ought we to evaluate the entrepreneur morally - and does the answer depend upon who we understand the entrepreneur to be?