Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
Date of birth: 1927-00-00
Date of death: 2002-00-00
Quotes number: 214
Nationality: American
Profession: Writer
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.
In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.
I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.
We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.
What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.