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Smart people should build things : how to restore our culture of achievement, build a path for entrepreneurs, and create new jobs in America / Andrew Yang.

Yang, Andrew, 1975- (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9780062292049
  • ISBN: 0062292048
  • Physical Description: xix, 250 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2014]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-242) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part 1 Where Our Talent is Going -- 1 Prestige Pathways 3 -- 2 Too Much of a Good Thing 16 -- 3 Professional Training Cuts Both Ways 31 -- 4 Network Effects and Why Human Capital Markets Don't Self-Correct 44 -- Part 2 Building Things -- 5 Building Things Is Really Hard 57 -- 6 How You Get Better 73 -- 7 Running a Company 83 -- 8 Rent-Seeking versus Value Creation 98 -- Part 3 Solving the Problem -- 9 Qualities We Need 107 -- 10 Building a Machine to Fix the Machine 113 -- 11 Future Changes for at Least a Few 138 -- 12 Teams of Builders 149 -- 13 Training Camp, and Notes from the Field 154 -- Part 4 Future -- 14 Mow to Get Smart People to Build Things 175.
Subject: Entrepreneurship.
New business enterprises.

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