Re: Re: entrepreneurs

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

"J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." wrote:

> Jim,
>       Clearly, the original use in English of "entrepreneur"
> implied profit-seeking,

Incidentally, the word "improvement" also originally meant
"for the sake of profits." Locke held that any land not being
used for profit was "waste" land. So the Indians in America
were not living on their land because they weren't "improving"
it -- that is were not making a profit from it.

Jane Austen's novels revolve around a pun on the older usage
of the term and the (occasional) use of it in the 18th century
in the modern sense.

Carrol