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A Solution to Vermont’s Declining Economy
Small, Dwindling, and Dead Last Vermont has pockets of prosperous haves in amongst fields of withering have-nots. Overall, though, the state’s economy has foundered for a long time. If you order America’s states on almost any economic measure,…
Welcome to the Economics of Growth, a collection of articles about economic, corporate, and personal growth written by Ed Egan.
Ed is an applied micro-economist conducting research in business economics, finance, and public policy. Much of his work leverages big data analytics and machine learning to understand important drivers of economic growth, including high-growth high-tech startups and markets for intellectual property.
Prior to academia, Ed was a serial fintech entrepreneur and worked for a cross-border venture capital fund focused on enterprise software.
Ed did his Ph.D. at the Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley, before being appointed the Innovation Policy Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He subsequently held faculty positions at Imperial College Business School and Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where he developed new entrepreneurship curricula.
From 2015 to 2018, Ed was a fellow of Rice University’s Baker Institute and the founding director of its McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. This site also provides an archive for more than 50 articles written by the McNair Center’s students and staff.
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This section features some of the best articles written by students at the McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Rice University’s Baker Institute. This site archives the full collection of McNair Center articles for future generations of entrepreneurship and innovation policy researchers.
Women in STEM: Closing the Gap
Economists around the world emphasize the benefits of integrating more women into the workforce. While we are seeing slow growth in women’s presence in many sectors, the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields at the core of innovation seem to be especially lacking in girl power. In 2014, women comprised approximately 47 percent of…
Bureaucracy and Public Sector Innovation
The public benefits greatly when there are innovations in how our government approaches policymaking and regulation. However, sometimes barriers created by bureaucratic structures can slow implementation. When regulation and rigidity are holding us back, leaders are responsible for ensuring that our government institutions are allowing for change when our old ways of approaching challenges become…
The Carried Interest Debate
In the 2016 election, carried interest and its taxation was a hot topic. Often explained as a “loophole” that allows the rich to exploit tax codes, carried interest is not a political issue that clearly fits within party lines. Lobbying by the financial sector occurs on both sides of the political aisle, and there are…
Small Business and Overtime Regulation
Clocking in: Small Business and Overtime Regulation What is the New Overtime Regulation? On December 1, 2016, the Labor Department will officially institute new regulations on overtime eligibility for workers. Announced on May 17, the new rules require business owners to pay salary workers earning up to $47,476 a year time-and-a-half overtime pay when they work more…
Mile-High Entrepreneurship
Boulder has long been considered Colorado’s startup hub, but Denver is emerging as a strong contender. Mentoring and venture capital support have helped Denver’s ecosystem expand rapidly so that it is well on its way to becoming self-sustaining. Denver has garnered a reputation as one of the best places for high-tech, high-growth ventures.The total number…