Entrepreneurship Culture 2600-MSMdz2pzsKP
• Theories of entrepreneurship
• dispersed knowledge in a market economy
• social media between addiction and free will of an individual in his/her roles as a citizen, a client, a consumer
• cultural characteristics of an entrepreneurial leadership; Henry Ford, Jack Welch, Musk-Bezos-Branson. Pecularities: Gates, Zuckerberg, Thiel
• capitalism wins against all competitors: what now? The cases of China, Russia, Japan, Germany, Poland and Ukraine
• Pragmatically it takes two: technology and class struggle to a tango of history
• the invention of a steam engine and a factory system of labor control (Watt, Arkwright): what about the resyt of a laborer life under an electronic supervision (the case of China) ?
• The concept of a technological progress as an independent variable against the background of different trajectories of computerization and robotization in manufacturing in Japan and USA (are all robots and their drones members of human family like pet dogs)?
• Interdisciplinary platforms of innovativeness. From war-improvised Manhattan Project to the Cold War heroine – an incubator of a Silicon Valley.
• Entrepreneurial competence: Hayek to Boisot
• the newest history of interorganizational innnovativeness (USA vs China, Atlantic vs Pacific, Africa is not a country, India, Triple Sea Alliance)
• the most fundamental conflicts in contemporary culture and their influence upon entrepreneurship and innovativeness
• let thousand CERN accelerators bloom!
Type of course
Mode
Assessment criteria
written mini-essays before each of the first three classes, final project presentation
Bibliography
Main readings:
Hayek, Friedrich August, 2007 (first edition 1944), The Road to Serfdom. Text and documents. The Definitive edition, Chicago, Chicago University Press
Lanier, Jaron, 2018, Ten Argumednts for deleting your social media accounts right now, New York, Holt
Additional Readings:
Magala, S., 2021, The Third Enlightenment (or Globalizing Meritocracies), Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Milanovic, Branko, 2019, Capitalism Alone. The Future of the System That Rules the World, Cambridge, MA, Belknap/Harvard University Press
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