Product Description: Originally published in 1994, this text analyses the key issues that influence the growth and development of small businesses. Looking at the concept in which they operate, the book outlines the factors that are dominant in the sector and explores the effects if has on the economy...read more

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Product Description: The Small Business Administration's (SBA) 7(a) program, initially established in 1953, provides loan guarantees to small businesses that cannot obtain credit in the conventional lending market. In fiscal year 2006, the program assisted more than 80,000 businesses with loan guarantees of nearly $14 billion...read more

Product Description: What are the differential effects of regulation and policy on small businesses? What is the impact of special regulatory treatment for small businesses? This book sheds light on these issues through analysis of the regulatory and public policy environment with regard to small businesses, including focused studies in four key areas: health insurance, workplace safety, corporate governance, and business organization...read more

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Product Description: David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director, proclaimed the Small Business Administration a "billion-dollar waste―a rathole," and set out to abolish the agency. His scathing critique was but the latest attack on an agency better known as the "Small Scandal Administration...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sandra M. Anglund examines the American national government's small business assistance policy from the passage of the Small Business Act of 1953 onward. She traces the heritage of the policy and shows how American core values, those often referred to as the American Creed, contributed to shaping that policy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The microenterprise strategy—helping people start small businesses—has generated attention among policymakers and the media as a way to create jobs and help lift people out of poverty. Through extensive interviews and case studies of five diverse microenterprise programs in different U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Are Small Firms Important? Their Role and Impact proposes and supports the claim that small firms make two indispensable contributions to the economy. First, they are an integral part of the renewal process that pervades market economies. New and small firms play a crucial role in experimentation and innovation that leads to technological change, productivity and economic growth. Second, small firms are the essential mechanism by which millions enter the economic and social mainstream of American society. The public policy implications for sustained economic growth and social well-being is the continued high-level creation of new and small firms by all segments of society. It should be the role of government policy to facilitate that process by eliminating entry barriers, lowering transaction costs, and minimizing regulation.

Explains why small businesses are leading a revolution against big government

Product Description: In this detailed look at the relationship between the nation's small-business community and government, Charles Riley examines the politics of the environment, the battle over health care, small-business lobbyists, trade pacts and their importance, when it's worth it to "fight City Hall," and more...read more

Providing an indictment of government policy-making and calling for a return to traditional values of self-reliance, personal initiative, and individual responsibility, a study reveals how government programs have failed and explains why small business is leading a revolution against big government.

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Product Description: Entrepreneurs and small business: are they in the avant-garde of innovation and economic growth? In Germany and the United States, policy-makers and economists have explored this question. Presenting their findings, this text also examines concerns of the social critic...read more

Product Description: … contributing scholars consider the impact that government regulations, policies and other forces--including innovation, tax reform, employee disincentives, academic partnerships, the costs of complying with government stipulations--have actually had on small business growth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)