In China's Shadow - The Crisis of American Entrepreneurship

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1(10) Looking East Toward the Dawn 11(30) Death of a Dream? The Challenge of China 11(13) China Is Near 11(4) Communist Mercantilism 15(5) IT Is It 20(4) Response Time 24(17) The Future Is Now 24(3) Some Past Will Be Prologue 27(1) America's Historic Culture of Entrepreneurship 27(7) The Halcyon Era 34(4) In an Uncertain Future 38(3) The Uprooting of American Business 41(16) Only World Championships Matter 41(3) Flying Flags of Convenience 44(3) Reverse Immigration 47(3) Fading Friendship 50(7) The Up and Down of Entrepreneurial Culture in America 57(32) Reform's End 57(4) The Golden Rules of the 1990s 61(28) Case in Point 61(10) Andreessen and the Browser 71(5) Leaders of the Net 76(1) Bringing Down the House 77(1) Change and Its Reactionaries 77(3) Enemies of Reform 80(3) Feckless Philosophers 83(3) Limitations of Capitalists 86(3) Home Improvement: Rebuilding the Architectures of Culture 89(28) The Laws of Entrepreneurial Encouragement 89(19) Spend Money to Make Money 90(2) Teaching Success 92(3) Antitrust for the Twenty-first Century 95(3) Growing the Market 98(3) Hand Up, Not Handout 101(1) Public Wealth and Private Gain 101(3) Worth What You Can Borrow 104(1) All Together Now 105(3) Principles of Technology Applied to Entrepreneurial Culture 108(2) Entrepreneurial Leadership 110(7) Risk-Taking and Risk-Reducing Leaders 110(4) Virtuous Cycles 114(3) America the Hopeful 117(18) The Power of Ideas 117(5) The Medium Is the Means 122(13) Notes 135(52) Index 187