Entrepreneurship or Entremanureship?

Digging through Romania's Institutional Environment for Transition Lessons

Europeans have also labored under institutions that inhibit productive entrepreneurship. In Romania, entrepreneurs have shied away from making significant investments, because the country’s

Europeans have also labored under institutions that inhibit productive entrepreneurship. In Romania, entrepreneurs have shied away from making significant investments, because the country’s regulatory framework has been “reformed” too often since the fall of state socialism, explain Peter Boettke, Christopher Coyne, and Peter Leeson. Regulatory uncertainty and rampant bribery have driven many capable people to seek employment in the government bureaucracy, rather than become productive entrepreneurs.

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Boettke, Peter J., Christopher Coyne and Peter T. Leeson. “Entrepreneurship or Entremanureship? Digging through Romania's Institutional Environment for Transition Lessons,” In Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Development, edited by Benjamin Powell, 223-249. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007.

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