Entrepreneurship, Prosperity, and Liberty in the Arab World
ABSTRACT
Participants examined how encouraging private initiatives and entrepreneurship can help address a number of economic and social problems faced by countries in the Middle East and North Africa much more efficiently than government interventionism can.
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Hardin, Garrett, “Tragedy of the Commons” In The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, edited by David R. Henderson, 497-499. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2008.
Hayek, F. A. The Constitution of Liberty. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Hayek, Friedrich A. Law, Legislation, and Liberty, Volume 2: The Mirage of Social Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Kuran, Timur. The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.
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Olson, Mancur. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965, 1971.
Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Schiffbauer, Marc, Abdoulaye Sy, Sahar Hussain, Hania Sahnoun, and Philip Keefer. “Jobs or Privileges: Unleashing the Employment Potential of the Middle East and North Africa.” The World Bank: Open Knowledge Repository. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/20591 (December 2016).
Schumpeter, Joseph A. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy [3rd edition]. New York City: Harper Perennial Modern Thought, 2008.
Shenker, Jack. “The future of the Egyptian revolution.” The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/16/future-egypt-revolution-tahrir-square-jack-shenker (December 2016).
Sobel, Russell S., “Entrepreneurship” In Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, edited by David R. Henderson, 154-157. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008.
Tripp, Charles. Islam and the Moral Economy: The Challenge of Capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.