This book studies the ongoing transition from an industrial to a
creative (or post-industrial) society and how the creative society
depends on a ‘soft infrastructure’ of individualist values and
institutions. It explains this by looking first at the key actors in
the creative society: creative individuals and entrepreneurial
individuals, using insights from social and cognitive psychology and
the economic theory of entrepreneurship. It shows how individual
creativity and entrepreneurship are supported by both cultural
individualism, based on the work of political scientists Ronald
Inglehart and Christian Welzel, as well as political individualism,
the principles of a democratic market economy guided by classical
liberalism. The book offers a number of policy implications that
result from the connection of this multidisciplinary
reconceptualization of individualism to economic creativity. It
discusses a system of property rights that accommodates the creation
of new property, ranging from the result of what we normally think of
as product innovation to larger-scale innovations embodied in the
formation of new lifestyle communities. It also considers examples
such as universities that are more open to experimentation and more
autonomous from government regulation, and a more liberal immigration
policy that may result from the positive association between
population diversity and creativity. This book is intended to support
further interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research on the
creative society (also known as post-industrialism, the postmodern
society or the knowledge-based society). It will be of interest to
academics and postgraduate students working in political economy,
entrepreneurship, institutional economics, Austrian economics, and
public policy.
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Individualism, Creativity and Entrepreneurship
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783031460500
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Springer Nature
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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