Tag Archives : entrepreneurship
The Economics of Creative Destruction, Part III
Why Schumpeter was pessimistic about the survival of capitalism.
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The Economics of Creative Destruction, Part II
Four tweets that illustrate the power of creative destruction.
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The Best and Worst States to Create a Small Business
Taking a look at how various states rank based on whether they are good places to create a small business.
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New Academic Study: Payroll Tax Burdens Stifle Entrepreneurship
The damage is worst on younger firms.
read more...Higher Tax Rates ==> Less Innovation ==> Less Prosperity
A formula for poverty.
read more...Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Capital Gains Taxation
4 things to know.
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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane….It’s Super Entrepreneur!
A great two-part series helps understand the critical role of entrepreneurship.
read more...The Miracle of Modern-Day Prosperity…and the Ideas and Policies that Made it Happen
Why are some nations rich and other nations poor? What has enabled some nations to escape poverty while others continue to languish? And if we want to help poor nations prosper, what’s the right recipe? Since I’m a public finance economist, I’m tempted to say a flat tax and small government are an elixir for prosperity, but those policies […]
read more...A Proposal for More Immigration that Should Have 100 Percent Support
On my recent trip to Colorado, I had dinner with Congressman Jared Polis, a Democrat from Boulder. He’s not exactly a small-government conservative, but he understands the importance of low marginal tax rates, free trade, and other important economic principles (whether he votes the right way is a separate question, of course, so I’m curious […]
read more...Obama’s Class-Warfare Tax Policy Will Hit Small Business
Kevin Hassett and Alan VIard of the American Enterprise Institute have a column in the Wall Street Journal showing how Obama’s proposed tax hikes will impose significant harm on small business owners and other entrepreneurs. Higher tax rates are damaging for the obvious reason that business cash flow gets diverted to the IRS, but also because […]
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