Carl J. Schramm

In 2004, Carl Schramm, president of the Kauffman Foundation, the world's leading foundation for entrepreneurship, published a groundbreaking essay with a radical that Americans literally have no conception of the secret that truly underlies our economic success, and that for the United States to survive and continue to lead the world's economy, it is imperative we learn to understand and employ th

In recent years the portion of America's gross national product devoted to health care has more than doubled. Hospital costs have risen at twice the rate of any other good or service that the average citizen needs. It seems clear though that this massive spending has not improved the health of Americans. It is clear too that as the population ages, there must me major changes in America's health c

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“The evangelist of entrepreneurship” ( The Economist ) reveals the true stories about how a range of entrepreneurs created their successful hint, many of them never began with a business plan.Business schools teach that the most important prerequisite for starting a business is a business plan. Nonsense, says Carl Schramm in Burn the Business Plan , who for a decade headed the most imp

The key to eradicating world poverty, increasing standards of living, and fuelling economic growth lies with capitalist economies yet contrary to conventional wisdom, capitalism is not a ‘one size fits all’ proposition in this book three prominent economists focus renewed attention on the essential role of capitalism in the context of the growing interest in economic development worldwide, the aut