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Preface1. PrimerPart 1: Motivation1. Introduction: A pluralistic approach to entrepreneurship research2. The Sciences of the Artificial (Herbert A. Simon) 3. Three Varieties of Knowledge (Donald Davidson)4. The Market as a Creative Process (James M. Buchanan and Viktor J. Vanberg)Part 2: Maker5. Introduction: Entrepreneurial Agency6. Bounding Rationality to the World (Peter M. Todd and GerdGigerenzer) 7. Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought (George Lakoff and Mark Johnson)8. The Construction of Preference (Paul Slovic)9. The Technology of Foolishness (James March)10. Great Men, Great Thoughts, and the Environment (William James)Part 3: Making11. Entrepreneurial Process12. Words, Works, Worlds, Ways of Worldmaking (Nelson Goodman)13. Competition as a Discovery Procedure (F.A. Hayek)14. The Transactional Self (Jerome Bruner)15. The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm (S. J. Gould and R. C. Lewontin)16. The Coasian and Knightian Theories of the Firm (Donald J. Boudreaux and Randall G. Holcombe)Part 4: Made17. Introduction: Entrepreneurial Outcomes17. The State of Humanity (Julian L. Simon)18. From the Past to the Future (Julian L. Simon)19. The Possibility of Social Choice (Amartya Sen)20. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs In The West And Fails Everywhere Else (Hernando De Soto)21. Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems (Elinor Ostrom)22. Social Attitudes, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (Alexander Gerschenkron)Part 5: Method23. Studying entrepreneurship as a three-legged artifact 24. Economics as a Historical Science (Herbert A. Simon)25. The Art and Science of Cause and Effect (Judea Pearl)26. Conceptual Metaphor in Everyday Language (George Lakoff and Mark Johnson)27. Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Richard Rorty)28. What Pragmatism Means (William James)29. Conclusion: Creative Powers of a Free Civilization (F.A. Hayek).