“As Minister of Foreign Affairs, I will work on deepening Haiti's links with its traditional partners from the north and the south, while exploring all the opportunities for economic, cultural, scientific and technological cooperation that may benefit my country.” MayCountryOpportunityEconomicBenefitsSouthAffairPartnersTraditionalMinistersLinksCooperationExploringTechnologicalHaitiForeign Affairs Author:Laurent Lamothe
“This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people.” PeopleWayGivingStillsChallengesAbilityClassEconomicDangerDependsConflictLowsDignityMajorityWorkersProductivityIncomeTraditionalDecentMinoritiesManualsThis SocietyKnowledge WorkersClass ConflictNew ClassManual Work Author:Peter Drucker
“The foremost challenge is that of the knowledge revolution. Economic power will depend on creativity and innovation. Creation of wealth will move from traditional resources to the one asset: knowledge.” MovingChallengesWealthCreativityEconomicCreationRevolutionDependsResourcesInnovationTraditionalAssetsCreativity And InnovationEconomic Power Author:Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
“President Obama is in China now for an economic summit in Beijing. The president wore a traditional purple silk shirt along with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. That's after they taught Putin how to put a shirt ON.” PresidentEconomicTaughtChinaTraditionalChineseShirtsPresident ObamaPurpleSummitPutinSilkBeijing Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Are public school textbooks biased? Are they censored? The answer to both is yes. And the nature of the bias is clear: Religion, traditional family values, and conservative political and economic positions have been reliably excluded from children's textbooks.” ChildrenHas BeensSchoolChristianPoliticalValuesReligiousAnswersClearEconomicPositionConservativeTraditionalBiasPublic SchoolTextbooksExcludedBiasedFamily ValuesCensoredTraditional FamilyConservative Political Author:Paul Vitz
“Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.” MenWayNeedsRealityPoliticsSocialCommunityWorkJusticeMoneyFamilyClassHistoryGenerationsEconomicHuman NaturePolicyEqualEthicsMen And WomenCapitalismStrategyPlanningBest WayTraditionalIdeologyVulnerabilitySexismReverseEqual Rights Author:Stephanie Coontz
“Studios felt like Blu-ray was going to be the next panacea, and so they dumped the prices (of traditional DVDs) and devalued the product. That's a misreading of consumer behavior as well as a misreading of the economic environment.” WellsNextFeltEnvironmentEconomicProductsBehaviorStudiosTraditionalConsumersRaysDvdsDumpedPanaceaMisreading Author:Bill Mechanic
“From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.” PoliticalValuesProcessEconomicMaterialsTraditionalTranslateParallelsMaterial ThingsEconomic Power Author:Alex Campbell
“No government dependent on a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifices which any adequate plan for European Union must involve. The people must be led slowly and unconsciously into the abandonment of their traditional economic defences, not asked.” PeopleGovernmentPlansSacrificeEconomicVoteAgreeUnionsDemocraticTraditionalDependentAdequateAbandonmentDefenceEuropean Union Author:Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft
“Economic systems work better when there's an extreme reliability ethos. And the traditional way to get a reliability ethos, at least in past generations in America, was through religion. The religions instilled guilt. ... And this guilt, derived from religion, has been a huge driver of a reliability ethos, which has been very helpful to economic outcomes for man.” MenWayHas BeensAmericaPastGenerationsEconomicHugeGuiltExtremesTraditionalOutcomesHelpfulDriversEconomic SystemsEthosReliabilityPast Generations Author:Charlie Munger