Big Is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business

Atkinson, Robert D.; Lind, Michael

ISBN 10: 026203770X / ISBN 13: 9780262037709

Verlag: MIT Press, 2018

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Inhaltsangabe:

In this provocative book, Robert Atkinson and Michael Lind argue that small business is not, as is widely claimed, the basis of American prosperity. Small business is not responsible for most of the country's job creation and innovation. American democracy does not depend on the existence of brave bands of self-employed citizens. Small businesses are not systematically discriminated against by government policy makers. Rather, Atkinson and Lind argue, small businesses are not the font of jobs, because most small businesses fail. The only kind of small firm that contributes to technological innovation is the technological start-up, and its success depends on scaling up. The idea that self-employed citizens are the foundation of democracy is a relic of Jeffersonian dreams of an agrarian society.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Robert Atkinson is Founder and President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington, D.C. think tank, and coauthor of Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage.

Michael Lind is a Visiting Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas and author of Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Big Is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of ...
Verlag: MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
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