Bilgi ve iletişim teknolojilerindeki gelişmeler ve küreselleşmenin etkisiyle dünya genelindeki koşullar değişmiş ve küresel bir bilgi ekonomisi ortaya çıkmıştır. Dünya ekonomisinde yaşanan bu değişimler ve oluşan fırsatlar yeni bir girişimsel toplum yaratarak, ekonomideki en küçük aktör olan girişimcinin gücünü arttırmış ve küresel ekonominin oluşumunda girişimcinin en önemli aktör konumuna gelmesini sağlamıştır. Tarihin ilk çağlarından beri yeni iş imkanları yaratmak, keşfetmek veya tanımlamak ve bu imkanları ekonomik kazanç için yeni girişimlerde kullanmak insan yaşamında daima önemli olmuştur. Bu anlamda fırsatlar, girişimcilik alanında sınır ve değişim koşullarını tanımlayan temel kavramlardan biridir. Çünkü bir fırsat olmadan girişimcilik olamaz. Potansiyel bir girişimci son derece yaratıcı ve çalışkan olabilir, fakat hedeflenen bir fırsat olmadan bu karakteristiklerle, girişimsel aktiviteler meydana gelemez. Dolayısıyla fırsatların doğasını açık bir şekilde anlamaksızın, girişimciliği geliştirmeye yönelik akılcı politika ve uygulamalar bulmak mümkün değildir. Bu nedenle girişimsel bir fırsatın nasıl anlaşıldığı ve nereden geldiğini bilmek oldukça önem arz etmektedir.

Underlying all these questions of right is the question how they are to be secured and maintained. By enforcing the responsibility of the executive and legislature to the community as a whole? Such is the general answer, and it indicates one of the lines of connection between the general theory of liberty and the doctrine of universal suffrage and the sovereignty of the people. The answer, however, does not meet all the possibilities of the case. The people as a whole might be careless of their rights and incapable of managing them. They might be set on the conquest of others, the expropriation of the rich, or on any form of collective tyranny or folly. It is perfectly possible that from the point of view of general liberty and social progress a limited franchise might give better results than one that is more extended. Even in this country it is a tenable view that the extension of the suffrage in 1884 tended for some years to arrest the development of liberty in various directions. On what theory does the principle of popular sovereignty rest, and within what limits does it hold good? Is it a part of the general principles of liberty and equality, or are other ideas involved? These are among the questions which we shall have to examine.

1. T. HOBHOUSE – 1911

This book is about economic growth and development through a new way of analysis. It is a research that explains many phenomena seen in the growth process such as productivity, economic stagnation, under-investment, ineffectiveness of foreign aid, wage trends, factor flows and concentrations, technology adoption, and convergence by “relational analysis”.

Relational analysis is a general alternative analysis that focuses on the relationships between factors and uses their vital consequences to extract knowledge rather than ignore them artificially and fatally. It emphasizes that there are important interrelationships between factors such as complementarity, substitution, embodiment, directing, input-output, and facilitation. Taking into account the relations enable to get more complete and accurate answers to important questions, especially in applied works that require real predictions such as forecasting and policy formulation. The analysis can be fruitfully applied in any field, and as the growth analysis shows it fundamentally enriches the ideas, and protect from misleading assumptions.

In the book the readers will find:

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