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Fives can appear to be loners, and sometimes they are. They often strike people as emotionally distant, not entirely present or at home in their bodies, aloof and sometimes intellectually arrogant. In part this is because Fives observe life from a distance rather than jumping in and participating in it.
The Road Back to You
Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile
Introduction, economists have described the role of an entrepreneur (as distinct from other factors of production, such as capital and labor) in a variety of ways: innovation (Schumpeter), coordination and combination of other factors of production (Say), risk-bearing (Cantillon), responsibility for uncertainty (Knight), and arbitrage (Kirzner). From these many roles that entrepreneurs can in principle perform, we can now identify those that the founders of “promising” companies actually do perform.
The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses
Amar V. Bhide
A life well lived is something more than a pleasant life. The Greeks called the condition of a life well lived eudaemonia. That word is sometimes translated as happiness or contentment. Those words fall short of capturing eudaemonia. “Flourishing” is a better translation and the word I will use here.
Wild Problems
Russ Roberts
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