Entrepreneurship entered US business curricula in the late 1960s and proliferated within a decade
Evidence
It is notable that entrepreneurship entered the business school curriculum precisely at the time when some of the key exponents of the new entrepreneurship literature, and Kirzner in particular, started talking about teaching economics. The first entrepreneurship courses in the United States were offered at Stanford and New York Universities in the second half of the 1960s. The first entrepreneurship MBA program in the United States was offered in the early 1970s at the University of Southern California. A decade later, several hundred undergraduate schools and universities featured entrepreneurship courses if not programs in the United States alone. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 276
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the broader literature on how ideas from economic theory get institutionalized into MBA education, paralleling my interest in how knowledge becomes curriculum. — connects to: Entrepreneurship is taught and promoted by an enormous dedicated institution industry — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 678; American business schools were academically weak until the late 1950s — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial…, 321; Mises, though marginal to academic economics, seeded the 1960s-70s neoliberal entrepreneurship revival — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 274 (+1 more)