<p>I think there are waves indeed. When you look at historical evidence you see a swinging between 'more free market' and 'more central planning (thus less free market)'. The more free a market is (less regulation, less taxes), the more entrepreneurship you will see. 
In the Soviet-Union for example entrepreneurship was dead because everything was centrally planned by government. It made no sense taking risk or sticking your neck out for something.</p>

<p>For statistics, if I were you I would try to look for historical data about 'number of people self employed', 'number of starting businesses', ... Maybe you can start by looking over here: <a href="http://www.oecd.org/std/business-stats/" rel="nofollow">http://www.oecd.org/std/business-stats/</a> or here <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/structural-business-statistics/entrepreneurship/indicators" rel="nofollow">http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/structural-business-statistics/entrepreneurship/indicators</a></p>

<p>hope this helps a little </p>

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This is may be better suited as a comment.
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Thought so too, but I needed 50 rep for that...
tibo
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Wait for it. ;)
Giskard
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Very correct, added 2 links to statistics to make it look more like an answer ;-)
tibo
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<p>In some models there are times when there are many entrepreneurs, and others when there are not. Is this a stylized fact of some kind? Are there any statistics about how entrepreneurial a particular generation is?</p>

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Are there big waves of entrepreneurship over time?
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# Are there big waves of entrepreneurship over time?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-06-07)

In some models there are times when there are many entrepreneurs, and others when there are not. Is this a stylized fact of some kind? Are there any statistics about how entrepreneurial a particular generation is?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2016-06-08. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

I think there are waves indeed. When you look at historical evidence you see a swinging between 'more free market' and 'more central planning (thus less free market)'. The more free a market is (less regulation, less taxes), the more entrepreneurship you will see.
In the Soviet-Union for example entrepreneurship was dead because everything was centrally planned by government. It made no sense taking risk or sticking your neck out for something.

For statistics, if I were you I would try to look for historical data about 'number of people self employed', 'number of starting businesses', ... Maybe you can start by looking over here: <http://www.oecd.org/std/business-stats/> or here <http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/structural-business-statistics/entrepreneurship/indicators>

hope this helps a little

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: This is may be better suited as a comment.  
> **username_1**: Thought so too, but I needed 50 rep for that...  
> **username_2**: Wait for it. ;)  
> **username_1**: Very correct, added 2 links to statistics to make it look more like an answer ;-)  

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