“There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.” GovernmentOpportunityWaitingTakenEconomicMassiveLegislation Author:Ellen MacArthur
“The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning? The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so muchasa boardofdirectors, never minda mergers-and- acquisitions department. There is a paradoxical lesson here for strategists. In economic terms, the great corporations are acting like socialist planners, while old- fashioned free-market capitalism blossoms at their feet.” LittlesTermActingTakenFeetEconomicPlanetsInternetLessonsShapesCapitalismUniversalPlanningCorporationsDepartmentSocialistIndispensableOld FashionedFree MarketAcquisitionParadoxicalStrategistPlannersMergersFree Market CapitalismMergers And Acquisitions Author:James Gleick
“The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.” WorldWayTryingSelfFactsPastNationsPoorCasesSuccessfulTakenEconomicCenturyExampleDevelopmentStandardsDecentGlobalizationStandards Of LivingEconomic DevelopmentSelf SufficiencySufficiencyEconomic GlobalizationPoor Nations Author:Paul Krugman
“You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is you don't end up with free political systems or free economic systems, you end up with a handful of radicals controlling the country.” PeopleEndsCountryPoliticalResultsDemocracyTakenEconomicMovementRadicalBroadsViciousHandfulPolitical SystemsEconomic Systems Author:Donald Rumsfeld
“Economic equity is an enormous empowerment of women. Having jobs that provide income means that women can be a more effective force, a more equal force, in the political process. Women with income take themselves more seriously and they are taken more seriously.” MeanJobsPoliticalForceProcessTakenEconomicEqualEmpowermentEnormousIncomeEquity Author:Betty Friedan
“Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.” PeopleTwoFoundTakenEconomicInvestingFollowingDisasterOctoberTwo DaysProspectsThursday Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“China has seen a great deal of economic progress. It's certainly rather of a miracle. The growing role of the market in the economy will force China to open up its political system over time and to move toward a more democratic society. So taken as a whole, the one real failure in this whole business has been Russia.” Has BeensRealWholeMovingPoliticalForceDealsRolesEconomyTakenGrowingProgressEconomicMiracleDemocraticChinaRussiaPolitical SystemsDemocratic SocietyEconomic Progress Author:Milton Friedman
“Three factors--the belief that child care is female work, the failure of ex-husbands to support their children, and higher male wages at work--have taken the economic rug from under that half of married women who divorce.” ChildrenCareThreeBeliefHalfSupportTakenEconomicHigherHusbandMarriedFemaleMalesDivorceFactorsWagesExesMarried WomenChild CareEx Husband Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild
“I wrote Normal Life using concepts that have been helpful to me, and hoping to offer those as accessible tools for thinking differently about the pitfalls trans resistance faces, in particular the temptation to focus on legal equality and the limitations of that approach, and the alternative approaches being taken by racial and economic justice focused trans activists.” ThinkingHas BeensFacesJusticeTakenFocusEconomicParticularOffersNormalApproachConceptsToolsFocusedResistanceTemptationAlternativesLimitationHelpfulActivistTransNormal LifePitfallsEconomic JusticeThinking Differently Author:Dean Spade
“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
“It is no accident that wherever the State ha taken economic decision away from the citizen, it has deprived him of his other liberties as well.” WellsStatesDecisionLibertyTakenEconomicCitizensAccidentsDeprived Author:Enoch Powell
“Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals to the imagination. The military is an engineering profession.” WantImaginationTakenEconomicMilitaryTasksRevengeProfessionScalesAppealsMassiveEngineeringDomination Book:Time and materials: poems, 1997-2005 Source: Time and materials: poems, 1997-2005