Articles by Scott Shane
- What Joe Biden Should Have Said at the Democratic Convention Tuesday, September 11, 2012
- Friday's jobs report shows that if the economy indeed turned the corner with President Obama in the driver’s seat, then the president has steered us off the ...
- When High-Interest Payday Lending Pays Thursday, July 19, 2012
- Lenders charge high interest rates for a reason.
- Why Small Businesses Aren’t Using the Health Insurance Tax Credit Thursday, May 24, 2012
- If you want small business owners to use a benefit, don’t make it more costly to get than it’s actually worth.
- When Reducing Barriers Leads to More Failed Businesses Wednesday, May 9, 2012
- While you get more business formation if you reduce the barriers to starting companies, you don’t necessarily get more successful entrepreneurship.
- Why Aren’t Banks Lending to Small Business? Ask Bernanke. Wednesday, May 2, 2012
- Banks profit by making loans, not refusing them. So why are banks making fewer loans to small business these days?
- Getting Venture Capital Back on Track Friday, March 30, 2012
- How a vital American industry just might make a comeback.
- Equity Crowd Funding: A Good Idea Whose Time Is Now Thursday, March 22, 2012
- Here’s a new tool for helping young companies raise money.
- When the Color of Unemployment Is Green Monday, October 31, 2011
- Environmental regulations can have many benefits. But they can also kill jobs. So what should be done today?
- Karl Marx’s Long Shadow in Eastern Europe Tuesday, October 4, 2011
- Communist political philosophy is still a powerful force in many former Soviet bloc countries.
- Karl Marx’s Long Shadow in Eastern Europe Saturday, September 24, 2011
- Communist political philosophy is still a powerful force in many former Soviet bloc countries.
- Understanding Just How Harmful Obama’s Tax Hikes Would Be Thursday, August 25, 2011
- The massive U.S. fiscal deficit has prompted the Obama administration to consider raising taxes on small business owners. Let us count the ways this is a ...
- Scrap the Accredited Investor Rule Wednesday, July 20, 2011
- The accredited investor requirement does little to protect unsophisticated investors and reduces entrepreneurs’ access to capital.
- Are Federal Policies Toward Small Business Contracting Succeeding? Tuesday, March 22, 2011
- If the goal is to help historically disadvantaged groups get a larger share of federal dollars, the answer is yes. But if the goal is to encourage federal ...
- The Boehner Uncertainty Principle Tuesday, March 1, 2011
- Physics has the Heisenberg uncertainty principle; economics now has the Boehner uncertainty principle.
- Why Small Business Wants Repeal of ObamaCare Wednesday, February 2, 2011
- The law is unpopular among small business owners because it is not making employee health insurance more affordable.
- Small Business, Big Regulatory Burden Thursday, January 20, 2011
- President Obama recently acknowledged the burden placed on enterprise. But does he know how large that burden is?
- Small Businesses and Big Unintended Consequences Wednesday, January 12, 2011
- No matter how benevolent, intelligent, and farsighted policy makers might be, they cannot anticipate how markets will react to laws and regulation.
- Why Small Business Owners Trust the Tea Party Wednesday, November 17, 2010
- Businessweek thinks Tea Party policies will harm small business. Think again.
- Why Are There So Few Female Entrepreneurs? Thursday, October 14, 2010
- There’s a politically correct explanation and a politically incorrect one. Only one of them is right.
- Why Small Businesses Aren’t Hiring Tuesday, August 24, 2010
- In the recoveries from the previous two recessions, small businesses led job creation. This time, however, small businesses aren’t hiring. Here’s why.
- No Way to Help Small Business Wednesday, June 30, 2010
- The need of many small businesses to raise money has led to several proposals to give small businesses more access to credit. Will they work?
- When Less Is More for Investors Sunday, April 18, 2010
- How the financial regulation bill under debate in the Senate would harm informal investors.
- Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Entrepreneurs Wednesday, March 17, 2010
- Immigrant rates of self-employment vary widely across countries of origin.
- The Genetics of Job Choice Tuesday, February 16, 2010
- The aspects of work we prefer, our level of job satisfaction, our willingness to change jobs, and even our tendency to start our own businesses are all ...
- From Start-up to Stop: The Recession and Entrepreneurship Friday, October 30, 2009
- I’ve taken a look at the data, and, I’m sad to report, the Great Recession has badly damaged the entrepreneurial sector of the U.S. economy.
- Will Small Businesses Stop Offering Health Insurance If Reform Passes? Friday, September 18, 2009
- For the average business, paying a penalty will cost them less than providing insurance.
- The Start-Ups We Don’t Need Wednesday, January 7, 2009
- Are we encouraging the creation of too many low-productivity businesses?