“The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.” ChallengesEconomicCitizensOffersBehaviorCompetitionComplexesPatternsCooperationDelicateEconomistPhysicistIntricateChemistStockholm Author:George Stigler
“The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.” MeanCountryStatesFoundUnitedUnited StatesEconomicProveAchievementPatternsEducationalCanadaCanada And The United States Author:J. Philippe Rushton
“[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in the pattern of daily life and thought. Whether this will happen or not, and if it does to what degree, is partly dependent on the power of resistance in those who represent the opposite pole of the courage to be, the courage to be as oneself.” IfsDoeMightHappensPoliticalToo MuchEconomicDegreesOppositesPatternsOneselfResistanceDependentDaily LifeCollectivism Author:Paul Tillich
“If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.” IfsWayEarthOrderSocialConsciousnessEconomicEvolutionHigherInnovationHarmonyEnvironmentalPatternsFavorsScalesMassiveCollapseInterventionBreakdownConvergenceEnhancement Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard
“The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some listen and others talk, and even that some people control others in very economic or even violent ways - that kind of hierarchy is what makes us vulnerable to believing in class hierarchy, to believing in racial hierarchy, and so on.” PeopleWayBelieveKindIdeasWholeClassEconomicPatternsViolentVulnerableCooksHierarchy Author:Gloria Steinem
“Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.” LongRealitySchoolEducationEconomicPatternsDiscriminationCustomsHousingDisparity Author:Bob Herbert
“It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our politico-economic system that large numbers of people simply abandon political and social committments. They just let society be taken over by a pattern of organisation which is as self-proliferative as a weed, and whose ends and values are neither human nor instinctive but mechanical.” PeopleHumansEndsSelfAblePoliticalValuesSocialNumbersTakenEconomicDespairChaosPatternsContributionProductiveAbandonWeedOrganisationLarge NumbersEconomic SystemsOrganised Author:Alan Watts
“All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their life through motherhood, by caring for their husbands and serving them. The fixed role pattern of one particular economic and family order is transformed into an order willed by God and given by creation. With a methodologically similar logic, slaves were understood as those elected by God to serve the whites.” HomeOrderGivenRolesEconomicCreationParticularHusbandEssentialsUnderstoodLogicSlavePatternsCaringMotherhoodFixedServingTransformedTheologianFundamentalistOrdinances Author:Dorothee Solle
“The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions. In the short run, it got mayors re-elected. In the long-run, it reduced Detroit from a thriving city to an economic disaster area, whose population was cut in half, as its most productive citizens fled.” LongSeemsMightRunningCitiesHalfCuttingEconomicCitizensTaxesAreasUnionsPatternsPopulationFollowingDisasterAdministrationProductiveLong RunsMayorsDetroit Author:Thomas Sowell