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 […]
Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life.
I just finished the book Thinking Strategically: the competitive edge in business, politics, and everyday life by Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff. It is the single best narrative (non-math) introduction to game theory that I have ever read. Here is the epilogue from part I, which paints the big picture incredibly well:
“A game […]