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This paper explains how and why the developed countries are undergoing a fundamental shift away from a managed economy and towards an entrepreneurial economy. This shift is shaping the development of western capitalism and has triggered a shift in government policies away from constraining the freedom of business to contract through regulation, public ownership and antitrust towards a new set of enabling policies which foster the creation and commercialization of new knowledge. The empirical evidence from a cross-section of countries over time suggests that those countries that have experienced a greater shift from the managed to the entrepreneurial economy have had lower levels of unemployment.
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Audretsch, D., Thurik, A. Capitalism and democracy in the 21st Century: from the managed to the entrepreneurial economy* . J Evol Econ 10, 17–34 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001910050003
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001910050003