Over the years, the Policy Dialogue on Entrepreneurship has featured an assortment of rankings that examine just about everything you can imagine to do with the economic well-being of all 50 U.S. states. Of course, most informed readers understand that different organizations lead to different points of emphasis, different methodologies and you guessed it—different results.
Still, there is just something so comforting about seeing those rankings and wanting to use them to validate opinions and even action plans. A new paper from the Kauffman Foundation—which has funded similar efforts—is asking policymakers to pump the brakes a bit.
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