6 - Is Entrepreneurship Christian?

Summary

In recent years, entrepreneurship has become identified by policymakers across the spectrum as something unambiguously good to promote. Entrepreneurs promote innovation, innovation spurs wealth creation, and richer people have more fulfilling lives, runs the logic. In the context of what has been described as the “ contained depression” of the ongoing financial crisis – where macroeconomic policy levers appear to have been successful in placing a floor under economic collapse but are impotent in stimulating anything but slow economic growth – so entrepreneurship and innovation are further identified as potential solutions to the immediate and present danger of secular stagnation.