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Is There a Magical Idea About Capitalist Entrepreneurship?

This idea of the entrepreneur is somehow this magic figure. It's difficult to avoid. And it has a genealogy, right? So it has a really serious intellectual lineage. I mean, if you think about Max Weber's account of the emergence of capitalism,. If you take a non-materialist account of the development of the history of capitalism and go to the great German sociologist Max Weber. He had this idea about capitalist entrepreneurship as deriving. But it's not from the fact of very special people being entrepreneurs and doing wonderful things.

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