“I'm very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I'm very lucky to be able to work at a time when finance and economics are really important. And the number of people who tell finance and economic stories in a kind of accessible storytelling way, there's much more demand than there is supply.” PeopleWayKindImportantStoriesAbleNumbersEconomicLuckyDemandEconomicsRadioStorytellingFinancePrint Author:David Plotz
“During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power.” YearsHas BeensWarStatesStoriesLastsLawEnjoyPowerfulClassPowerMilitaryCommunicationSpeechAuthorityAdvantageEconomicsConstitutionPressesLocalsTalesOppressionDozenFree SpeechBentDespotismSuppressionFree PressAssemblageMartial Law Author:Edward Alsworth Ross
“It is a privilege to be recognized by FDLA. I am a staunch believer that as a member of the Bar, we have the great privilege to represent clients in all facets of our practice, and that includes making the commitment to represent clients for whom access to representation and ultimately justice is limited by economics. As all of the “20 for 20 honorees have done, stepping up to meet that commitment is at the heart of what it means to be a lawyer. I hope the inspiring stories and contributions of my fellow honorees will shine a bright light on FDLA and this most important mission.” HeartMeanImportantDoneStoriesLightJusticePracticeMembersCommitmentEconomicsFellowsShiningPrivilegeMissionsLawyerAccessBelieverBarsContributionClientsRepresentationFacetsBright LightsInspiring Stories Author:Terrence J
“Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support.” StoriesFormActorsSupportEconomicsPrincipalWeb Content Author:Matt Nix
“Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard - figuring out how much to save - and requires self-control.” SelfHardStoriesProblemEconomicsSavingRetirementSelf ControlEconomistSavingsSuccess StoriesGreatest SuccessBehavioral Economics Author:Richard Thaler
“In terms of the economics, yes obviously the rise of e-books and how people choose to read books has a big effect on the economics of the game. But whether people are buying them on paper or downloading them there's still some poor wretch in a room who is trying to write a poem, write a story, write a novel. And so my job doesn't change. It's just how people receive it and economic conditions on the ground change, but that doesn't affect what I write.” PeopleWritingTryingStillsBookStoriesBigsJobsGamesTermPoorRoomsNovelEconomicConditionsEffectsPaperEconomicsBuying Author:Colson Whitehead
“I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive seminars and no one has demolished it so far. I did think that this idea from an artisanal and trading perception of the auratic quality of goods when they are given character and inscription, made the stories of phantasmic wealth read more powerfully in the 18th and 19th centuries than the stories of Cinderella's wealth, because they are conjured out of nothing by these magic means.” ThinkingMeanMadeIdeasCharacterStoriesGivenWealthQualityMagicCenturyPerceptionEconomicsArgumentNonsenseMassiveGoodsThinkerTrading19th CenturyMarxistInscriptionsSeminars Author:Marina Warner
“One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own story; to explain us to ourselves; to help us weave some meaning and purpose into the fabric of our lives; to illuminate our understanding of where we have come from; to paint word pictures of our future onto which we can project our aspirations.” ImportantHelpingStoriesPurposeUnderstandingLeadershipBusinessResponsibilityLeaderOur LivesProjectsEconomicsPaintIncludingSettingSettingsAspirationOur FutureFabricOrganisation Author:Hugh Mackay
“Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But things are changing and people are beginning to understand that things are going very, very well.” PeopleWellsRealStoriesRiskEconomicsVery Good Author:Aliko Dangote
“We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are naturally and primarily competitive and self-interested and that life is best shaped around that bleak fact - is bunkum” PeopleNeedsYearsHas BeensSelfFactsStoriesLife IsTurnsBusinessEconomicsManagementBleak Author:Ed Mayo
“Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.” WorldStoriesHappensFocusPureModelsExpectationsEconomicsFundamentalsStupidityDrivenRationalFinanceConspiracyEconomistExaggeratedAdmittingMisinformationInattention Author:Robert J. Shiller
“Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're not just about redistributing the goods. They're about figuring out what is good.” StoriesPoliticalChangeSocietyMovementGoodnessEconomicsDetermineMeaningfulNarrativeGoodsDistributionWordplayRearranging Author:Marshall Ganz
“It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.” PeopleStoriesLiteratureDisciplineEconomicsClimbingSociologyLadders Author:Nikki Giovanni
“General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in many parts of the world and is clearly destined to continue developing well into the twenty-first century. Translation studies brings together work in a wide variety of fields, including linguistics, literary study, history, anthropology, psychology, and economics. This series of books will reflect the breadth of work in translation studies and will enable readers to share in the exciting new developments that are taking place at the present time.” WorldFirstsWellsBookStoriesTogetherGrowthStudyPsychologyShareSubjectsCenturyFieldsDevelopmentReaderDisciplineEconomicsExcitingTwentiesSeriesIncludingWideVarietyDevelopingEditorsDestinedTranslationsAnthropologyLinguisticsBreadthPresent TimeSuccess Stories Author:Lawrence Venuti