entrepreneur

In short, the fictional private eye is a specialized version of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur, the man whose private ambitions must always and everywhere promote the public welfare.

Not only did the ideal entrepreneur not produce the greatest good for the greatest number, he ended by destroying himself, by giving birth to monopoly capitalism.

Thus the transformation of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur into a mythological detective coincides closely with the decline of the real entrepreneur in economic life.

Perhaps the public's present attitude toward business stems from the fact that the `` rugged capitalist entrepreneur '' no more exists in America.

The old ideal of the independent entrepreneur is extant -- but so is the recognition that the main chance may be in a corporate bureaucracy.

* 1896 – Hans List, Austrian inventor and entrepreneur ( d. 1996 )

* 1964 – Tony Fernandes, Malaysian entrepreneur

* Adrian Holovaty ( born 1981 ), American web developer, journalist and entrepreneur

* 1942 – Jack Roush, American racing entrepreneur

The patent, held by US entrepreneur Loren Miller, expired in 2003.

* 1911 – Ivan Combe, American businessman and entrepreneur, invented Clearasil and founded Combe Incorporated ( d. 2000 )

* Moshe Bar ( investor ) ( born 1971 ), Israeli technologist, author, investor and entrepreneur

* Karl Benz ( 1844 – 1929 ), German engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur who built the first patented automobile in 1885

* Bertha Benz ( 1849 – 1944 ), German marketing entrepreneur who was the first to drive an automobile for a long distance

* Kafi Benz ( b. 1941 ), American entrepreneur who is a preservationist, writer, and artist ; studio director for sculptor Jim Gary ; and the founder of Friends of Seagate Inc. and Kafi Benz Productions

* Gérard Blitz ( entrepreneur ) ( 1912 – 1990 ), founder of Club Med

* Simon Blitz, British entrepreneur

The Dutch explorer and entrepreneur David de Vries gives the first mention of it in his journal for the year 1642 (" the Wickquasgeck Road over which the Indians passed daily ").

Robert " Bob " Young is a serial entrepreneur whose biggest success has been Red Hat Inc, the open source software company.

* Alfred E. Mann-Physicist, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

* Jørgine Boomer ( 1887 – 1971 ), Norwegian-American businesswoman and entrepreneur

* Moses H. Cone ( 1857 – 1908 ), an American textile entrepreneur, conservationist, and philanthropist

During the presidencies of Prieto and his two successors, Chile modernized through the construction of ports, railroads, and telegraph lines, some built by United States entrepreneur William Wheelwright.

* Peter Nordin, computer scientist and entrepreneur