This Economist Studied Millions of Business Owners. He Uncovered the Surprising Way Everyday Americans Actually Get Wealthy

Owen Zidar, co-author of the book founders can’t stop talking about, “The Everywhere Millionaire,” sat down with Inc. to mine the largest-ever dataset on entrepreneurs.

BY TOM FOSTER @TOMFOSTER2

If you wanted to get very rich in America, where would you start? In their new book The Everywhere Millionaire, economists Owen Zidar of Princeton and Eric Zwick of the University of Chicago detail the results of more than a decade spent piecing together millions of tax records and other data to map a part of the American economy that had been hiding in plain sight: the impressive fortunes being built by owners of privately held businesses. Buried in that data are surprising........

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