Gains from trade between austrian economics and entrepreneurial studies : an introduction to the volume / Roger Koppl -- The entrepreneur as a constructor of connections / Peter E. Earl -- Market opportunity and organizational grind : the two sides of entrepreneurship / Ulrich Witt -- The business firm as a hybrid hayekian order : what is the role of the entrepreneur? / Stavros Ioannides -- Information, entrepreneurship, and economic progress / Randall G. Holcombe -- The entrepreneur at a crucial juncture in Schumpeters work : Schumpeters 1928 handbook entry entrepreneur / Markus C. Becker, Thorbjørn Knudsen -- Entrepreneur / Joseph A. Schumpeter, Markus C. Becker, Thorbjørn Knudsen -- Schumpeters entrepreneur in historical context / Geoffrey M. Hodgson -- A translation too faithful? / Nicholas W. Balabkins -- Schumpeter on entrepreneurship / Young Back Choi -- Schumpeters entrepreneur and why we need economic sociology / Richard Swedberg -- Schumpeter and the obsolescence of the entrepreneur / Richard N. Langlois -- Entrepreneurship, industry evolution and economic growth / David B. Audretsch, A.Roy Thurik -- On Austrian analysis of entrepreneurship and my own / William J. Baumol -- Entrepreneurship and development : cause or consequence? / Peter J. Boettke, Christopher J. Coyne -- Differentiation and continuity in the market economy / G.B. Richardson -- Entrepreneurship studies : a stocktaking / Maria Minniti -- Entrepreneurship and the generation of knowledge / William N. Butos.

Austrian economics and entrepreneurial studies have both expanded greatly in the last twenty or thirty years. Unfortunately, they have developed more or less independently of each other. Austrian economics has enjoyed a revival since 1973 or 1974. In 1973, Israel Kirzner published his classic book, Competition and Entrepreneurship, which outlined an entrepreneurial theory of the market process. In 1974, F. A. Hayek was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. The same year saw the famous South Royalton conference, which is the traditional origin of the Austrian revival. The intellectual history of entrepreneurial studies reaches back at least as far as Richard Cantillon (1755).As an intellectual movement, however, entrepreneurial studies began about the same time as the Austrian revival. The beginnings of the entrepreneurship movement might be dated to sometime before 1978 when Babson College established its Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, the first such center in the US. In all this time, however, there has been limited exchange between Austrian economics and entrepreneurial studies. It is high time we expand trade across the border between Austrian economics and entrepreneurial studies.

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