January 29, 2009 - In the first of a series of podcast interviews entitled "Unconventional Thinkers," Dawn Rivers Baker, entrepreneur and founder of The MicroEnterprise Journal, poses the following questions:

What has changed in the economy to cause such a surge in the number of microbusinesses that are staying micro over the last decade or so?

Why, if there is so much evidence that microbusiness development works better than smoke stack chasing, do policy makers and economists still dismiss the smallest of businesses?

What could President Obama do that would be a better use of taxpayer dollars than throwing them at huge corporations?

Says Rivers Baker, "These are some of the questions I was able to explore in my interview with Michael Shuman, author of The Small Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating The Global Competition and the Small-Mart.org blog."

To listen to the 30-minute podcast, click here. Or, you can visit the Microbusiness News Briefs Podcast homepage.