Caroline Calais -- Democracy in Americas

Det är männsikors attityder om marknad, arbete och risk-tagning som bestämmer ett lands ekonomiska prestation, inte skatter eller arbetsmarknads regleringar, det säger ialla fall Edmund Phelps, nobel pristagare och ekonom på Columbia University. Och han får medhåll. En rapport om entepreneurship från Massachusetts baserade Monitor Group visar till exempel att attityder  förklarar 40 percent av variationen i start-up företags ekonomiska framgång.

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Is the Obama tide turning Texas Blue? It looks like it. Record numbers of Texans are hitting the ballot, and Obama raised, in January, 179,000 dollars more than McCain. And in the highest presidential fundraising zip code in the state, 75025 in Dallas, donors gave Mr. Obama seven times more money than they did to Mrs. Clinton.  “Obama and President Bush have similar thoughts on education”, Allen Burns, an Allen financial analyst says, “while Mr. Obama rightly criticizes Mr. Bush for under-funding No Child Left Behind, both men understands the fundamental importance education plays in competing with countries like India and China”. Mr. Burns also points to the policy connection between Mr. Obama and Texas republicans. “Governor Rick Perry is leading a multibillion dollar effort to build up Texas’ research and development capacity, Obama is speaking strongly about beefing up R&D nationwide to invigorate business. We Texans can’t depend forever on cheap business costs and the petrochemical sector”. 

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