Saturday, March 14, 2009
Graph of the day: Regulation and business
The new issue of The Economist (March 14th) has a very interesting "special report" devoted to entrepreneurship around the world, of which more later. It speaks to me, insofar as the lead story in the series bears the title "global heroes." Indeed they are.
Anyway, one of the stories contained this nifty graph, which compares the "density" with which new entreprises enter an economy with its regulatory burden. The correlation is low enough to see that factors other than regulation have a big influence on a country's proclivity to start businesses, and high enough for anybody who cares about growth to care also about the burdens of regulation.
2 Comments:
By 
Noumenon, at
Sun Mar 15, 02:00:00 AM:
Those five myths were really interesting -- especially the one about tech founders 1995-2005 averaging 39!
By 
, at
Tue Mar 17, 01:26:00 AM:
Liberals make rules then they break them as well
