# Professor Petra Moser is interviewed about immigrants' contributions to entrepreneurship in the United States

1 Faculty News June 3, 2017 ![CBS News logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031726.jpg?itok=XPqKNXWl)>

Excerpt from [CBS News](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/india-born-entrepreneur-creates-american-jobs-in-the-clothing-industry/) -- "New York University economist [Petra Moser](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/petra-moser) says immigrant entrepreneurs have a long history in the United States. 'Go back as far as Andrew Carnegie, who came from Scotland and then built a very, very large industrial, you might even call it an industrial empire and created many, many jobs,' Moser said."

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