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Discovery or ownership ? A new light on an Austrian controversy over entrepreneurship

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  • Thierry Aimar

    (BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - AgroParisTech - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

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This article delivers an original analysis of an Austrian controversy between Rothbard and Kirzner about the relationship between entrepreneurship and capital ownership: in real-world markets, must the entrepreneur be a capitalist or not? The two authors were opposed to each other on that issue. Here, we will take a new look at existing literature by proposing a review of the key terms used in the debate. The thesis we defend here is that Rothbard and Kirzner were suffering from a mutual conceptual misunderstanding. Thus, taking an original view aims to steer the debate to a positive outcome and to reconsider the Austrian relationship between entrepreneurship, ownership and exploitation of capital.

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  • Thierry Aimar, 2021. "Discovery or ownership ? A new light on an Austrian controversy over entrepreneurship," Post-Print hal-03209497, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03209497
    DOI: 10.1093/cje/beab001
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    Entrepreneurship; Capital ownership;

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