Rami M. Shapiro, rabbi and storyteller of Temple Beth Or in Miami, Florida, is an award-winning poet and essayist, whose liturgical poems are used in prayer services throughout North America. He is the author of Wisdom of the Jewish Sages- A Modern Reading of Pirke Avot.
'Magnus Henrekson and Robin Douhan have assembled a well-integrated collection of scholarship that will broaden intellectual horizons about the role of the entrepreneur in an economy.'- Albert N. Link, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, US'The persistence of significant differences in the level of entrepreneurial activity across countries is one of the most puzzling phenomena of the modern economy. Cultural differences and their interplay with the institutional and political system are usually mentioned as the drivers of these differences. The political economy approach of the present book is a quintessential step to unravel these drivers. It provides a definitive survey of what the literature has to offer.'- Roy Thurik, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands