Entrepreneurship
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Elon Musk’s Paper Billions Are Vanishing
The global trillionaire count returned to zero not long after SpaceX’s IPO. Market fluctuations show the danger of imposing cash tax bills on stock-price wealth.
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Cheap Groceries, Costly Consequences: City-Run Stores Ignore Second-Order Effects
New York’s city-run stores promise cheaper groceries, but their discounts merely transfer costs. Taxpayers foot the bill, while bodegas and grocers lose customers.
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The Food Revolution Nobody Planned
From food trucks to farmers’ markets and beyond, entrepreneurs — not policymakers — are finding new ways to feed people, create value, and deliver much more than just cheaper food.
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How Markets Fought Mosquitoes
More than a cartoon prop, the old-fashioned FLIT gun was one of many innovations that gave ordinary households unprecedented power over pests that plagued us for centuries.
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Rediscovering the Comparative Advantage of Business Schools
Before asking students how businesses should change society, business schools should ensure they understand how businesses create value in the first place.
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Why Oil Keeps Getting More Abundant
Oil deposits may be finite, but human knowledge is not. Freedom, innovation, and entrepreneurship continually transform our use of resources.
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Upward Mobility Is a Better Measure of Justice Than Income Equality
If your wealthy boss earns less, will you earn more? France’s compressed salary scale shows more ‘equal’ pay clusters at levels that could keep you both poorer.
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Welcome to Trillionistan. Don’t Get Comfortable.
Not all trillions — debts, valuations, investments — are created equal. Huge nominal numbers often obscure the institutions and incentives that produced them.
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Immigrants Build America’s Most Valuable Companies
Visa holders founded half of today’s Fortune 500 companies and a majority of billion-dollar startups. Current restrictions damage that competitive advantage and choke off future growth.
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Entrepreneurship Requires More Than a Million-Dollar Idea
The entrepreneur’s challenge is creating value others want to buy. They don’t start with a perfect idea, but with a willingness to listen and learn.
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Elon Musk’s Paper Billions Are Vanishing
The global trillionaire count returned to zero not long after SpaceX’s IPO. Market fluctuations show the danger of imposing cash tax bills on stock-price wealth.
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•
Cheap Groceries, Costly Consequences: City-Run Stores Ignore Second-Order Effects
New York’s city-run stores promise cheaper groceries, but their discounts merely transfer costs. Taxpayers foot the bill, while bodegas and grocers lose customers.
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•
The Food Revolution Nobody Planned
From food trucks to farmers’ markets and beyond, entrepreneurs — not policymakers — are finding new ways to feed people, create value, and deliver much more than just cheaper food.
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•
How Markets Fought Mosquitoes
More than a cartoon prop, the old-fashioned FLIT gun was one of many innovations that gave ordinary households unprecedented power over pests that plagued us for centuries.
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•
Rediscovering the Comparative Advantage of Business Schools
Before asking students how businesses should change society, business schools should ensure they understand how businesses create value in the first place.
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•
Why Oil Keeps Getting More Abundant
Oil deposits may be finite, but human knowledge is not. Freedom, innovation, and entrepreneurship continually transform our use of resources.
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•
Upward Mobility Is a Better Measure of Justice Than Income Equality
If your wealthy boss earns less, will you earn more? France’s compressed salary scale shows more ‘equal’ pay clusters at levels that could keep you both poorer.
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•
Welcome to Trillionistan. Don’t Get Comfortable.
Not all trillions — debts, valuations, investments — are created equal. Huge nominal numbers often obscure the institutions and incentives that produced them.
-
•
Immigrants Build America’s Most Valuable Companies
Visa holders founded half of today’s Fortune 500 companies and a majority of billion-dollar startups. Current restrictions damage that competitive advantage and choke off future growth.
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•
Entrepreneurship Requires More Than a Million-Dollar Idea
The entrepreneur’s challenge is creating value others want to buy. They don’t start with a perfect idea, but with a willingness to listen and learn.