Peter G. Klein
Peter G. Klein | |
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| Born | 1966 (age 59–60) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | UC Berkeley (PhD) 1995 University of North Carolina (B.A.) 1988 |
| Doctoral advisor | Oliver E. Williamson |
| Influences | Friedrich Hayek, Oliver E. Williamson, Carl Menger, Friedrich von Wieser, Ludwig von Mises |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Managerial economics, Entrepreneurial econ, Innovation econ, Industrial econ |
| School or tradition | Austrian School |
| Institutions | Baylor University (2015-present) University of Missouri (2002–2015) University of Georgia (1995–2002) UC Berkeley (1989–94) |
| Website | |
Peter Gordon Klein is an American economist. He holds the W. W. Caruth Endowed Chair and is a professor of entrepreneurship at Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business, where he is also chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation. Klein is Academic Director of the Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise and Carl Menger Research Fellow at the Mises Institute. He serves as associated editor for Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and associate editor of The Independent Review. His 2012 book Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment (with Nicolai Foss, Cambridge University Press) won the 2014 Foundation for Economic Education Best Book Prize and has been translated into Polish and Persian.