经济学理论中研究企业家的文献非常丰富。但各种论述大都从功能观点给企业家下定义,强调企业家的作用并认为发挥这些作用的人就是企业家。在各式各样的企业家功能中缺乏一条贯穿其中的主线。美国经济学家马克·卡森(Mark Casson,1982,1992,1995)坚持伦理人假设和有限理性假设,沿着方法论个人主义和契约理论的“路径”,从所有关于企业家的经济理论和心理学、社会学的论述中,概括出企业家 The literature on entrepreneurship in economic theory is very rich. However, most of the arguments from the functional point of view to define entrepreneurs, emphasizing the role of entrepreneurs and that those who play these roles are entrepreneurs. There is a lack of a thread that runs through all kinds of entrepreneurial functions. American economist Mark Casson (1982, 1992, 1995) upholds the assumption of ethics and the assumption of bounded rationality and follows the “path” of methodological individualism and contract theory from the perspectives of all economic theories and psychology of entrepreneurs Learn, sociology discourse, out of entrepreneurs