Fact-Checkers as Entrepreneurs

Bureaucrats as entrepreneurs: Do municipal telecommunications providers hinder private entrepreneurs

We consider how government-owned enterprises affect privately owned rivals. Specifically, we compare the types of markets that municipally owned telecommunications providers in the United States serve to the types of markets that competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) serve. We find that CLECs focus on potential profitability while municipalities appear to respond to other factors, such as...

Entrepreneurs as Organizational Products Revisited

Macro studies of entrepreneurship emphasize how environmental conditions—social, economic, and political—facilitate the creation of new organizations. Examples include how periods of political turbulence create favorable conditions for the emergence of new organizations (e.g., Delacroix & Carroll, 1983), how market concentration driven by the movement of generalist organizations favors the emer...

Author ' s personal copy Entrepreneurs as intermediaries

This paper sketches the contours of a theory of entrepreneurship focusing on the nature of entrepreneurship as intermediation under information asymmetries. While entrepreneurship, strategy, and finance researchers have studied the relationship between entrepreneurs and intermediaries, they tend to treat intermediaries, such as venture capitalists, as a separate organizational form that is para...

Evolution as Fact and Theory

Solving Checkers

AI has had notable success in building highperformance game-playing programs to compete against the best human players. However, the availability of fast and plentiful machines with large memories and disks creates the possibility of a game. This has been done before for simple or relatively small games. In this paper, we present new ideas and algorithms for solving the game of checkers. Checke...