Research - davidharper

Research

Books:

Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, Routledge, London and New York, 2003

Entrepreneurship and the Market Process: An Enquiry into the Growth of Knowledge, Routledge, London, 1996

Wellsprings of Enterprise: An Analysis of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy in New Zealand, New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, Wellington, 1994

Journal articles:

Entrepreneurial aesthetics, Rev. of Austr. Econ. 2020 (forthcoming).

Innovation in online higher-education services: building complex systems, Econ. of Innov. and New Tech. 2020 (forthcoming), (w/F. Muñoz and F. Vázquez)

Economic development and complexity: the role of recombinant capital, Camb. J. Econ. 2019 (forthcoming), (w/A. Endres).

Innovation and institutions from the bottom up: An introduction, J. of Inst. Econ. 14(6), 2018.

From Quaker Oats to Virgin Brides: Brand capital as a complex adaptive system,(w/A. Endres) J. of Inst. Econ. 14(6), 2018.

Innovation, recombinant capital and public policy, (w/A. Endres) Supreme Court Econ. Review 23, 2016.

Dr. Braun’s exposition of Carl Menger’s capital theory: Was there a fundamental break?, (w/A. Endres) Hist. of Econ. Ideas 23(2), 2015.

Property as a complex adaptive system: how entrepreneurship transforms intellectual property structures, J. Evol. Econ. 24(2), 2014.

Menger on the nature of capital and its structure: a reply, (w/A. Endres) J. of the Hist. of Econ. Thought, 2014.

The Economics of Time and Ignorance: A critical re-examination after 25 years, Rev. of Austr. Econ. 26(1), 2013.

'Wresting meaning from the market': A reassessment of Ludwig Lachmann's entrepreneur, (w/A. Endres) J. Inst. Econ. 9(3), 2013.

Property rights, entrepreneurship and coordination, J. Econ. Beh. Organ. 88, 2013

The kinetics of capital formation and economic organization, (w/A. Endres) Camb. J. Econ, 2012.

New perspectives on emergence in economics, (w/P. Lewis) JEBO 82(2-3), 2012

The anatomy of emergence, with a focus upon capital formation, (w/A. Endres) JEBO 82(2-3), 2012

Carl Menger and his followers in the Austrian tradition on the nature of capital and its structure, (w/A. Endres) J. Hist. Econ. Thought 33(3), 2011

Capital as a layer cake: a systems approach to capital and its multi-level structure, (w/A. Endres) JEBO 74(1-2), 2010

Numbers as a cognitive and social technology: on the nature of conventional number sequences used in economic systems, J. Inst. Econ 6(2), 2010

Towards a theory of entrepreneurial teams, J. Bus. Venturing. 23(6), 2008

A bioeconomic study of numeracy and economic calculation, J. Bioecon. 10(2), 2008

Money and alertness, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines 12(2/3), 2002.

Institutional conditions for entrepreneurship, Adv. in Austrian Econ. 5, 1998.

A new approach to modelling endogenous learning processes in economic theory, Adv. in Austrian Econ. 1, 1994.

The entrepreneur in theory and practice, (w/R.T. Hamilton) J. of Econ. Studies 21(6), 1994.

National renewal and strategic change: First lessons from an early-mover in deregulation, (w/C. Campbell-Hunt and R. Hamilton) J. of Strategic Change 4(1), 1994.

The dynamics of manufacturing industry: Changes in establishments and employment by sector, (w/A. Bollard) NZ J. of Bus. 8, 1987.

Employment generation and establishment size in New Zealand manufacturing, (w/A. Bollard) Internat. Small Bus. J. 4(4), 1986.

A regional analysis of business and employment dynamics in New Zealand manufacturing, (w/A. Bollard) NZ Geographer 42(2), 1986.

Book chapters

Intellectual property as a complex adaptive system, in A. Pyka and J. Foster (eds) The Evolution of Economic and Innovation Systems, 2015.

Growth of knowledge perspectives on corporate behaviour, in P. Earl (ed) Management, Marketing and the Competitive Process, 1996.