Self-employment: what holds them back?

Here’s a recent post to the New York Times Economix blog that I found very interesting.
Catherine Rampbell, author of the post, cites a study by the liberal-leaning (according to Ms. Rampbell) Center for Economic and Policy Research, which finds that “By every measure of small-business employment, the United States has among the world’s smallest small-business [...]

That looming entrepreneurship boom (that’s already booming)

One of the biggest problems I have when reading other people’s work on startups and small businesses is that dratted word entrepreneur.
Sometimes, writers and researchers use the word to refer to anybody who sticks their neck out and starts a business. It can be a nonemployer or a microbusiness or a larger small business, that [...]

Microbusiness and growth and the pursuit of happiness

I was going to write about something else today, but this caught my eye.
To quote Dr. Jeff Cornwall, “Scott Shane is at it again.”
Dr. Shane is a professor of entrepreneurship at Case Western. People keep asking him to write about small business, which I find kind of odd because, if we judge him by his [...]

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