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Spring 2020

ISSN 0890-913X

Volume 35, Number 1

Categories: Spring 2020 | Political Entrepreneurship

Private Prerogative, Public Purpose: Political Entrepreneurship and Management in Frederick the Great’s Anti-Machiavel

Alexander W. Salter, Texas Tech University

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TheJournalofPrivateEnterprise35(1),2020,1–28PrivatePrerogative,PublicPurpose:PoliticalEntrepreneurshipandManagementinFredericktheGreat’sAnti-MachiavelAlexanderW.SalterTexasTechUniversity__________________________________________________________AbstractIcontributetotheliteratureonpoliticalentrepreneurshipbyanalyzingtheroleofthepoliticalentrepreneurinFredericktheGreat’sAnti-Machiavel.FredericktheGreat(FrederickIIofPrussia)isbestknownforturningPrussiaintoaninternationalpowerduringthemidtolateeighteenthcentury.Hisperspectiveongovernancecontainsmanyvaluableinsightsintothenatureofpoliticalentrepreneurship,theinstitutionswithinwhichitoccurs,anditseffectsonmaterialprosperity.IdetailkeypointsfromAnti-Machiavelthatcanadvancescholarshiponpoliticalentrepreneurship.IconcludebydiscussinghowFrederick’sinsightsintopoliticalentrepreneurshipcanbeputtowork.__________________________________________________________JELCodes:B11,H11,M1,P16Keywords:cameralism,enlightenedabsolutism,entrepreneurship,FredericktheGreat,politicalentrepreneurship,publicadministrationWhatisprudenceintheconductofeveryprivatefamily,canscarcebefollyinthatofagreatkingdom.—AdamSmithI.IntroductionPoliticalentrepreneurshiphasrecentlybecomeasignificanttopicineconomics,politicalscience,andmanagerialscience(e.g.,Agarwaletal.2009;BernierandHafsi2007;BjerregaardandLauring2012;BystedandJespersen2014;KivlenieceandQuelin2012;Kleinetal.2010,2013;LeydenandLink2015;MartinandThomas2013;McCaffreyandSalerno2014;McGinnisandOstrom2012;Ostrom2005;Skarbek2016).Studiesofpoliticalentrepreneurshiptakeinsightsfrommarketentrepreneurshipandapplythemtopoliticstounderstandthedynamicsofinstitutionalchange.Theoreticalstudiesadvanceourunderstandingofpoliticalentrepreneurshipinwaysthatincreaseitsapplicability;empiricalstudiesadvanceourunderstanding

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Title	Private Prerogative, Public Purpose: Political Entrepreneurship and Management in Frederick the Great’s Anti-Machiavel
Authors/Creators:	Alexander W. Salter, Texas Tech University
Year:	2020
Volume:	35
Number:	1
Pages:	1 - 28
Publisher:	The Association of Private Enterprise Education
ISSN:	0890-913X
Document Type:	Articles
Keywords:	cameralism, enlightened absolutism, entrepreneurship, Frederick the Great, political entrepreneurship, public administration

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Salter, Alexander W. / 2020. "Private Prerogative, Public Purpose: Political Entrepreneurship and Management in Frederick the Great’s Anti-Machiavel." The Journal of Private Enterprise, 35(1): 1-28.