{"id":49951,"date":"2015-03-28T14:09:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T20:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/28\/improving-entrepreneurship-by-improving-social-welfare.html"},"modified":"2015-05-10T13:53:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T19:53:09","slug":"improving-entrepreneurship-by-improving-social-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/28\/improving-entrepreneurship-by-improving-social-welfare.html","title":{"rendered":"Improving entrepreneurship by &#8230; improving social welfare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In summary, some new analysis demonstrates that when people know that there&#39;s a social safety net there to catch them if their attempt to start a new business fails, people start more new businesses. The same is true when bankruptcy laws are more lenient.<\/p>\n<p>If true, that would indicate that screwing down on bankruptcy laws and getting rid of welfare programs, both conservative ideals (so as to reduce the &quot;moral hazard&quot; of &quot;dependency&quot;) may have an opposite effect of what they want to see happen: people taking risks to create new businesses and innovate, cornerstones of American economic freedom, as Ronald Reagan himself boasted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/03\/welfare-makes-america-more-entrepreneurial\/388598\/?single_page=true'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/5_3rzgwbQAuck5ldU5yUclJXGcd5zO3d6Vkhy3qeC5NwSWOS_JWVlWJSk3FcrYiFG8h2zKb_CTVEA_eypVi9_w8kmbaHEFY5uJpYBwgJKSB-jQxHwvV2b2rO79lg_ovj2Q=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/03\/welfare-makes-america-more-entrepreneurial\/388598\/?single_page=true'>Welfare Makes America More Entrepreneurial<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nResearch shows that when governments provide citizens with economic security, they embolden them to take more risks.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/KRd2aJH3Ags'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In summary, some new analysis demonstrates that when people know that there&#39;s a social safety net there to catch them if their attempt to start a new business fails, people start more new businesses. The same is true when bankruptcy laws are more lenient. If true, that would indicate that screwing down on bankruptcy laws &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/28\/improving-entrepreneurship-by-improving-social-welfare.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Improving entrepreneurship by &#8230; improving social welfare?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,528,77,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economic-justice","category-economy","category-taxing-spending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134503,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/01\/so-were-in-an-economic-emergency.html","url_meta":{"origin":49951,"position":0},"title":"So &#8230; we&#8217;re in an &#8220;economic emergency&#8221;?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 1-Sep-17 8:53am","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump has been crowing non-stop, even before he assumed office, over how great the economy is doing because of his actions. 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