The State of Modern Economics
Peter G Klein is Carl Menger Research Fellow of the Mises Institute and W.W. Caruth Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business. He is also senior research fellow at Baylor’s Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise and adjunct professor of strategy and management at the Norwegian School of Economics. His research focuses on the economics of entrepreneurship and business organization, with applications to innovation, regulation, and economic growth. Klein has authored or edited five books and has published over seventy-five academic articles, chapters, and reviews.
JEFF DEIST: Let’s start with the general state of the economics profession. What’s changed since you were at Berkeley earning your PhD in the early 1990s?
From the Ground Up
More than four decades ago, Baylor became one of the nation’s first universities to establish an entrepreneurship center. It quickly became the focal point for entrepreneurial development at Baylor, building new curriculum, conducting research and acquiring additional resources.
Today, the Baylor Department of Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation within the Hankamer School of Business is dedicated to the study, teaching and practice of new venture creation and growth.
U.S. News & World Report ranked Baylor’s undergraduate entrepreneurship program as the nation’s eighth-best last fall, ahead of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Southern California.