Private Prerogative, Public Purpose
Alexander William Salter, Assistant Professor of Economics in the Rawls College of Business, and the Comparative Economics Research Fellow with the Free Market Institute, at Texas Tech University, writes on political entrepreneurship.
I contribute to the literature on political entrepreneurship by analyzing the role of the political entrepreneur in Frederick the Great’s Anti-Machiavel. Frederick the Great (Frederick II of Prussia) is best known for turning Prussia into an international power during the mid- to late-18th century. His perspective on governance contains many valuable insights into the nature of political entrepreneurship, the institutions within which it occurs, and its effects on material prosperity. I detail key points from Anti-Machiavel that can advance scholarship on political entrepreneurship, and conclude by discussing how Frederick’s insights into political entrepreneurship can be put to work.
Private Prerogative, Public Purpose
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Alexander William Salter, Assistant Professor of Economics in the Rawls College of Business, and the Comparative Economics Research Fellow with the Free Market Institute, at Texas Tech University, writes on sovereign entrepreneurship.
I develop a theory of sovereign entrepreneurship, which is a special kind of political entrepreneurship. Sovereignty is rooted in self-enforced exchange of political property rights. Sovereign entrepreneurship is the creative employment of political property rights to advance a plan. Building on several literatures in political economy and the managerial-organizational sciences, I show how sovereign entrepreneurship is related to ownership and residual judgment rights to government activities. I illustrate the theory by using it to reinterpret the rise of modern states as the entrepreneurial reassembly of ownership rights and control rights within government. I conclude by discussing future avenues of research on sovereign entrepreneurship.
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