Everyone Is an Entrepreneur: Selling Economic Self-Determination in a Post-Soviet World

Everyone Is an Entrepreneur: Selling Economic Self-Determination in a Post-Soviet World

by Gregory V Diehl
Everyone Is an Entrepreneur: Selling Economic Self-Determination in a Post-Soviet World

Everyone Is an Entrepreneur: Selling Economic Self-Determination in a Post-Soviet World

by Gregory V Diehl

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Overview

"An intelligent exploration of the psychology of the entrepreneur and the toxic effects of authoritarianism." -Kirkus Reviews

"An intriguing economics text addressed to post-Soviet Bloc audiences who are interested in business development... a compelling picture of the changes wrought by economic shifts." -Foreword Clarion Reviews

Westerners today grow up with abundant opportunities to determine their own values, identities, and roles in society. But for generations, millions who lived under Soviet rule in the USSR had these essential freedoms withheld, determined instead by a central authority that claimed the right to choose for them and enforce their compliance. Thirty years after the Soviet Union's decisive collapse, the old communist paradigm continues to limit those who come of age in a post-Soviet world.

Everyone Is an Entrepreneur showcases the experience of an American author acclimating to life in the developing post-Soviet economy of Armenia in a rural area called Kalavan village. Along the way, he examines how the intelligent and hardworking people he lives among are stuck in a state of transition away from all-encompassing, bureaucratic control. They struggle to adjust to the responsibilities of economic self-determination because they have never learned how to see the world through entrepreneurial eyes.

Entrepreneurship is a principled way of seeing the world, a paradigm that applies to people in all cultural and economic circumstances: Artists, office workers, doctors, teachers, farmers, and laborers alike. By adopting this universal outlook, anyone can produce more wealth, accomplish bigger goals, and take control of their life like never before.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781945884597
Publisher: Identity Publications
Publication date: 03/11/2022
Pages: 328
Sales rank: 711,134
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Gregory V. Diehl understands the transformative power of the right book in the right hands. He writes with the hopes that his work will make its way to those who need it: deep thinkers unsatisfied with ordinary approaches to important subjects. His work often deconstructs and challenges cultural narratives that keep people from establishing and embodying who they really are. When he's not writing, Gregory offers alternative education and mentorship informed by his wealth of diverse cultural experience across the globe. Residing now in a scenic village in Armenia, amidst a backdrop of books and felines, Gregory's preferred pastime is silent contemplation.
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