Tag: Ian Hathaway

U.S. Businesses No Longer Dominate in Venture Capital Funding

Ian Hathaway quoted in Inc.

Almost half of Fortune 500 companies were founded by American immigrants or their children

Ian Hathaway

Democrats Want To Shutdown The Government To Protect DREAMers–Here’s An Economic Case For Doing So

Ian Hathaway

The Amazon Bounce Back

Ian Hathaway

Unproductive entrepreneurship is increasingly common in America

Ian Hathaway and James Bessen cited in the Economist, 8/4/2017

Is America Encouraging the Wrong Kind of Entrepreneurship?

Ian Hathaway with Robert Litan. Are we seeing unproductive entrepreneurship? We don’t have a smoking gun to confirm this hypothesis, but there surely is smoke, and it comes in two forms: rising profits, especially those earned by the largest businesses in the economy, and suggestive evidence of an increase in efforts to shape the rules of the […]

A Less Dynamic American Economy: What’s Going On?

Ian Hathaway with Robert Litan.

The Shifting Source of New Business Establishments and New Jobs

Ian Hathaway with Mark E. Schweitzer, and Scott Shane

Tracking the gig economy: New numbers

Ian Hathaway with Mark Muro

The gig economy, as reflected by nonemployer firms, is significant and growing fast. Overall, there has been a clear surge in nonemployer firms’ — a measure of contractor and freelance individuals — business activity in the last decade, which almost certainly reflects, at least in part, the rise of online platforms.