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Is Judgment Measurable?

| Lasse Lien |

The hosts of this blog have offered an intriguing perspective on entrepreneurship, in which the entrepreneur is seen as an individual possessing judgment. Judgment is in short the ability to spot opportunities for profit under Knightian uncertainty (as opposed situations involving mere risk). Because there are prohibitive transaction costs associated with exploiting judgement via market contracting, the entrepreneur is left with little choice but to start his or her own firm to exploit this competence/skill/resource. This seems quite plausible, and I nodded enthusiastically as I read the paper. However, one problem kept — and keeps — bothering me (as a lowly empiricist); the problem of how to establish the existence of judgment empirically. (more…)

20 August 2006 at 2:11 pm 6 comments

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Richard N. Langlois, The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler, and the New Economy (Routledge, 2007).
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