Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-195) and index.

part 1 Part I The Critical Path of the Entrepreneur in Economic Theory -- chapter 1 A Historical Sketch of the Research on Entrepreneurship -- chapter 2 The Neoclassical Era -- chapter 3 The Austrian School -- chapter 4 Synthesis and Summary -- part Part II From the Evolution of Economics to the Economics of Evolution -- chapter 5 Evolutionary Economics -- chapter 6 Synthesis of Evolutionary Ideas -- part 3 Part III Modelling Entrepreneurship from an Evolutionary Perspective -- chapter 7 Point of Departure -- chapter 8 The Homo agens in a Socio-Economic Context -- chapter 9 The Model -- chapter 10 Conclusions and Prospects.