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Social Security, Risk, and Compromise

entrepreneurship and ownership — Social Security encourages those very activities. Thus it’s not at all clear, as its advocates often claim, that privatization would increase overall entrepreneurship. (For a related…

…culture. I think it is. Take the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) for instance. It shows that Germans are much less likely to start their own company than the inhabitants of…

…As he puts it in the introduction: “It’s entrepreneurship, stupid!” How does one encourage productive entrepreneurship? Beaugrand provides a convenient seven step summary: Peace and stability: establish a credible political…

I finally agree with (much of) a Krugman criticism of the Sanders campaign. (And why I’m glad he made the criticism in the way he did.) [Clarification added 2/20 at 11:05 a.m.; update added 2/21 at 9:40 a.m.]

…shows zero interest in entrepreneurship and says the Wall Street banks that provide capital to risk-takers are involved in “fraud.” … I’d take Sanders more seriously if he would stop…

Innovation

…teacher and the students. High Schools, desperate for ways to help their students succeed, can be too quick to fall for the buzzword economic solutions such as Entrepreneurship, Free Markets,…