Making Noise
Jan 24th, 2011 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Policy MattersIn all this, there has been a lot of the standard rhetoric about how wonderful small businesses are and how we are going to pull the country’s collective economic chestnuts out of the fire.
Except, of course, that nobody who either says or even thinks those things is talking about us — about microbusinesses.
That’s because policy makers and academic economists tend to think that microbusinesses are useless unless they’re doing a certain set of things in a certain way.
Of course, some people might consider it to be impolite to point out that the certain set of things and the certain way in question belong in a previous century. Since I generally try to be polite, I’m not going to point any of that out.
