The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent

by Vivek Wadhwa

Book Overview

A 2012 ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Many of the United States' most innovative entrepreneurs have been immigrants, from Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Pfizer to Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Elon Musk. Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies and one-quarter of all new small businesses were founded by immigrants, generating trillions of dollars annually, employing millions of workers, and helping establish the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1613630212
• ISBN13: 9781613630211
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Wharton School Press
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.3"