Book Review: Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed and What to Do About it by Josh Lerner, Princeton University Press, p. 248, 2009

Abstract:     
Governments worldwide spend enormous sums subsidizing and even bailing out troubled firms. These firms are almost always large, mature companies in mature industries. In this book, Josh Lerner asks whether government should instead focus on emerging companies. Perhaps government would do better to provide funds to fledgling companies as well as -- or instead of -- troubled, established companies

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Government Policy

JEL Classification: M13, N40

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