Arbeitspapier

Entrepreneurial accessibility, eudaimonic well-being, and inequality

Amidst considerable debate on the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic inequality, scholarship only indirectly addresses how entrepreneurship informs individuals' relative well-being. We theorize on the nuanced relationship between entrepreneurship and equality of eudaimonic well-being through the lens of New Institutional Economics. Drawing on theories of human flourishing, we suggest that entrepreneurial action is an underappreciated mechanism by which individuals pursue well-being. Equality of well-being is thus influenced by a society's entrepreneurial accessibility: the freedom of individuals to choose to engage in entrepreneurial action. We present a multilevel framework in which institutional factors enable entrepreneurial action by promoting entrepreneurial accessibility-a factor, that, in turn, affects well-being for individual entrepreneurs as well as societal eudaimonic equality. The ex ante conditions for equality of well-being entail institutions that yield broad entrepreneurial accessibility. Our work highlights the institutional prerequisites for human flourishing in the entrepreneurial society beyond (unequal) economic distributions.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 1410

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General
Entrepreneurship
Institutions and Growth
Thema
Inequality
Entrepreneurship
Well-being
Institutions
Eudaimonia

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Boudreaux, Christopher John
Elert, Niklas
Henrekson, Magnus
Lucas, David S.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
(wo)
Stockholm
(wann)
2021

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Boudreaux, Christopher John
  • Elert, Niklas
  • Henrekson, Magnus
  • Lucas, David S.
  • Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

Entstanden

  • 2021

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