“Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.” WayWantHardGovernmentLeftGrowthEconomyPicksExpensiveDevicesLoserBankingStripesHard Way Author:Frances O'Grady
“Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.” WisdomPoliticsEconomyTroubleBenefitsDevilConscienceAdvantageSlaveLiberalismDevicesExpensesWagesCunning Book:Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology Source: Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology
“I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.” WisdomPoliticsEconomyMankindEqualConsciousConsequencePropertyMiseryEnormousInequalityLiberalismDevicesDivisionLegislators Book:The Essential Jefferson Source: The Essential Jefferson
“Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.” PeopleUseGamesEconomyCommunicateDevicesRecipesProcessingPlaying Games Author:Steve Case
“In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.” IfsWantRealEndsWould BeFormNamesProcessCommunityEconomyAchieveMankindCenturyHigherThousandLimitsStandardsLaborFunctionSpeedSavingCollectivesDevicesWasting TimeStableDogmaEfficiencyConsumerismCagesNineteenth CenturyFutilityOverconsumptionExtravagantStandards Of LivingSquirrels Author:Lewis Mumford