The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship: Job Creation and Survival among US Startups
Abstract
Shai Bernstein of Harvard Business School reviews “The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship: Job Creation and Survival among US Startups” by Robert W. Fairlie, Zachary Kroff, Javier Miranda, and Nikolas Zolas. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores entrepreneurial job creation, survival, and ownership demographics, detailing a new dataset that follows the universe of startups in the United States, the novel and important findings that resulted from analyzing these and related data, and the implications for evaluating policy and the fundamental nature of entrepreneurship.”