Creating wealth and welfare: entrepreneurship and the developmental state in rural China

摘要

The entrepreneur embodies a scarce and distinctive amalgam of vision, drive, creativity, acquisitiveness and opportunism which enabled him or her to ... combine factors of production in innovative ways to create wealth both for him/herself and for society as a whole. As such, the notion is inextricable from both markets and the profit motive ... It is also part of the private realm of society as opposed to the public realm of the state or the associational realm of 'civil society' which operate with different sets of motives and behavioural codes. (Gordon White, unpublished MS)