Morrie the Toupee Salesman

Nice article in the Economist about another “entrepreneurship can fix anything” programs. In this case it’s a way to find careers for ex-convicts. But there’s a lot of truth to the assertion in the article that:

“… that many criminals are intelligent people with good heads for business and healthy appetites for risk, and that these traits can be put to productive use. She is particularly interested in people who have already demonstrated these skills—for example by running a successful drug business or achieving a high rank in a gang.”

The “Prison Entrepreneurship Program” has a website. I do have one caveat - if criminals make good entrepreneurs, than it’s reasonable to assume that the ones that don’t get caught are the cream of the crop, and are not served by this program. But presumably they can go to the standard places for financing, if they get by the due diligence.