Unintended consequences
…and other sports, promoting forestry and hunting programs and launching entrepreneurship competitions. “Nationwide, the number of women on campuses has surpassed the number of men for more than four decades,…
…and other sports, promoting forestry and hunting programs and launching entrepreneurship competitions. “Nationwide, the number of women on campuses has surpassed the number of men for more than four decades,…
Yves Smith points us to information on our notions of new business and venture capital: Amar Bhide, who has written the classic, The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses, has…
My Economics Professor in MBA School, Peter Klein, lectured fondly of the Indian (as in subcontinent, not AmerInd) “entrepreneurs” who risked life and limb going through rubbish heaps looking for…
As part of my continuing series of Analogies that Should Be on the SAT, this is what Famous Entrepreneurs do (h/t Brad DeLong): In the IBM PC era, Steve drove…
“The practice of medicine was accepted to be a chancy way to make a living, and nobody expected a doctor to get rich, least of all the doctors themselves.” –…
Busy week, so just a couple of things of note. Via Dr. Black, my old neighborhood gets a chance to build a better future: “It’s a great partnership among a…
The Washington Post reports on an interesting development. If people aren’t able to “see” how they personally fit in to the ‘economy’ or ‘carbon footprint’ in a real way, they…
Note: This is “what I believe I said,” not“what I would have said” and is presented here solely to document the confluences that were, perhaps, clearer in my head than…
Glancing through the CBO survey that only checked one side of the ledger, and therefore made Greg Mankiw happy, I came across the data on Corporate Taxes paid, by Quintile…
Peter D. Wallace, 19 June 1961 – 26 December 2024 Prelude I have been working for many years. Not enough, by any stretch, but many. And, as with many males…