The lecture starts at 6:30pm, on Wednesday 18th November and covers an array of entrepreneurship policy issues including: efficiency, hours of work, taxes, banking, Brexit, regional investment, Covid-19, and income.
The general public and governments across the world hold entrepreneurs in high esteem. This esteem underpins the unwavering support for public policy interventions to support them. In this lecture, we challenge whether this support is justified by appealing to the evidence. In doing so we hope to establish what the myths and truths of entrepreneurship are. This is important as we have to remember that it is our taxes that are used to fund all government expenditure on supporting entrepreneurship.
During the course of this lecture, we will cover the tax treatment of entrepreneurs and government intervention in debt and equity markets, as well as challenging whether entrepreneurs do indeed generate all the wonderful things such as productivity, innovation, and jobs that governments use to justify spending our hard-earned taxes, that would lead to improved incomes and wealth for the wider population. We also question how entrepreneurs have fared during the Covid-19 crises and question whether the government has effectively shielded them. Finally, we ask a simple but important question: Does entrepreneurship pay?
Professor Marc Cowling
Professor Marc Cowling is currently ranked in the top 9% of economists in the world by citations and in entrepreneurship, he was ranked 23rd in the world over the period 1995-2006. Marc has spent the last 30 years researching in 4 core areas; The Dynamics of Early Stage Survival and Growth, The Financing of SMEs, Labour Market Dynamics, and Evaluating Public Policy. Marc has published 90 academic peer-reviewed journal articles and co-authored three books on public policy relating to unemployment, economic growth, and entrepreneurship. He has also undertaken 60 sponsored projects including public policy evaluations in the UK and internationally.
If you wish to book a place at this lecture please email and a link to join the event will be sent to you.
