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Little Business on the Prairie: Entrepreneurship, Prosperity, and Challenge in South Dakota . Prairie Plains Series. By Robert E. Wright. (Sioux Falls, SD: Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, 2015. x + 340 pp. Illustrations, map, charts, table, notes, bibliography, index. $16.95, paper.) From the title, I expected this book to explore how a single business survived and even thrived in the wilds of South Dakota. Instead, I discovered it to be a sweeping economic history of the state in the context of Robert E. Wright presenting his “entrepreneurship growth model” (p. 8). Basically, this model states that with more freedom comes more innovation and growth, and Wright sees South Dakota as the exemplar of freedom: “it is a free port in a sea of high taxes, ubiquitous regulatory shoals, and …
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