No Laissez-faire for Starbucks
There was an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal this morning about one customer’s experience with the Starbucks customizable gift card.
But when my friend Roger Ream, president of the Fund for American Studies, received a Starbucks gift card for Christmas, he found there was a limit to how personalized a card could be. His […]
Policy-Making for Business and Entreprenuership
The Kaufmann Foundation came out with an interesting paper about local and state policymakers targeting entrepreneurs rather than existing businesses. Typically there are big incentives, usually in the form of tax breaks, which are offered to an existing business to move its operations to the new state. The paper argues that this type of thinking […]