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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Over 50 years ago, economist William Baumol noted that economics was a theory of the economy that left no place for entrepreneurship.

Economists have faced a deluge of negative press in the past few years, ranging from criticisms over the failure to forecast the financial crisis, to the more recent disbelief over the granting of the ...