Everyone Is an Entrepreneur
Gregory V. Diehl
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. 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.
Duration - 8h 26m.
Author - Gregory V. Diehl.
Narrator - Gregory V. Diehl.
Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2022 Gregory V. Diehl ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
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. 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. Duration - 8h 26m. Author - Gregory V. Diehl. Narrator - Gregory V. Diehl. Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023. Copyright - © 2022 Gregory V. Diehl ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:52
Preface
Duration:00:05:29
The Stifled Flowering of Entrepreneurship in a Post-Soviet Culture
Duration:00:22:41
Section I: What Wealth Is and Where It Comes From
Duration:00:06:54
Chapter 01: Knowledge and Skill—Information and Its Useful Application
Duration:00:16:27
Chapter 02: Capital and Consumption Goods—Technology for Producing Wealth and Satisfaction
Duration:00:16:00
Chapter 03: Commodities and Currencies—Interchangeable and Representational Forms of Wealth
Duration:00:16:17
Section II: How Entrepreneurial Thinking Leads to Wealth Accumulation
Duration:00:07:57
Chapter 04: Purchasing and Investing—The Transformation of Money into Greater Wealth
Duration:00:24:08
Chapter 05: Asset Security—Protecting Accumulated Wealth from the Inherent Risk of Loss
Duration:00:17:05
Chapter 06: Education Capital—Leverage from the Learning Economy of Scale
Duration:00:22:05
Section III: Anti-Entrepreneurial Biases, Misinformation, and Obstacles
Duration:00:11:14
Chapter 07: Entrepreneurial Blindspots—Overlooking Emergent Opportunities for Wealth
Duration:00:20:44
Chapter 08: Pseudo-Entrepreneurial Façade—Results Lacking Risk or Responsibility
Duration:00:14:11
Chapter 09: Theft—The Counterproductive Want of Something for Nothing
Duration:00:15:21
Chapter 10: Bureaucratic Mentality—The Tragedy of the “Right” Way of Doing Things
Duration:00:24:56
Chapter 11: Entrepreneurial Persecution—Social Hindrance of the Productive and Ambitious
Duration:00:23:49
Section IV: The Natural Laws and Qualities of Entrepreneurial Interaction
Duration:00:08:55
Chapter 12: Supply and Demand—The Conflict between What Is and What’s Wanted
Duration:00:18:14
Chapter 13: Fungibility and Scarcity—When One Thing Is or Is Not Like Another
Duration:00:17:49
Chapter 14: Speculation—Aesthetics, Vanity, and the Anticipation of Demand
Duration:00:18:22
Chapter 15: Division of Labor—The Harmony of Specialization
Duration:00:12:01
Chapter 16: Arbitrage—Everyone is a Middleman
Duration:00:19:51
Section V: Entrepreneurship Applied in Reality
Duration:00:09:34
Chapter 17: Market Viability—Determining What’s in Demand and Equitable
Duration:00:20:28
Chapter 18: Asset Uniqueness—Producing Something Worth Paying Attention To
Duration:00:25:00
Chapter 19: Marketing and Sales—Building Awareness and Motivation for New Action
Duration:00:21:02
Chapter 20: Pricing—Finding Agreement between Buyers and Sellers
Duration:00:19:06
Chapter 21: Brand Identity—Upholding the Symbol of a Promise or Ideal
Duration:00:14:05
Conclusion: The Economy Runs on Choice
Duration:00:07:25
Afterword: A Case Study in Influencing the Opening of a Store in Kalavan Village
Duration:00:27:55
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:24