“Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost merciless God; no human agency can help him; his church is a means to political and social organization rather than a bridge to deity, for no priest can have greater knowledge of the divine way than he himself; no friend can console him - in fact, he should distrust all men; in the same fashion, Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.” MenWorldWayShouldHumansMeanFactsHelpingHandsChristianFacesPoliticalSocialVoiceChurchGreaterEconomicFashionDivineOrganizationBridgesAgencyPriestsDistrustDeitiesConsoleStand AloneNo FriendsSocial OrganizationFugue Author:Lionel Trilling
“It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be widely believed that the use of private property is tainted with evil and should not be espoused by rational and civilized men... the only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property. The Good Society.” MenShouldHumansHas BeensUseWisdomEvilPoliticsSpeakLibertyEconomyRightsEconomicSecurityFashionConflictFoundationPropertyHuman RightsRationalLiberalismCivilizedPrivate PropertyProperty RightsTaintedDependablePersonal LibertyEconomic Security Author:Walter Lippmann
“Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.” ThinkingHardWould BeForceSocialInterestWealthRolesGoneEconomicFashionCapitalismOwnersShedAccordApprovedAnonymityAdverseSocial SystemsConnotationTerminology Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.” DifferentReasonLyingCitiesBehindsEconomicFashionPossibilityBuildingOne TimeConstructionTechnologicalDwelling Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that management didn't have this money out at work ... Now look. Presto! A new fashion! Cash is back in! Denigrating liquidity has dropped quicker than hemlines. A management is now saluted if it has some cash, some liquidity, doesn't have to go to the money market at huge interest rates to get the wherewithal to keep going and growing. Along with Ben Franklin, my father and your father would understand and applaud this new economic fashion.” IfsLooksFatherInterestMoneyGrowingEconomicFashionHugeCoupleSeasonsManagementRateLazyKeep GoingCashIdleIndicationFranklinInterest RateLiquidityBen Franklin Author:Malcolm Forbes
“The woman who does her job for society inside the four walls of her home must not be considered by her husband or anyone else an economic "dependent," reaching out her hands in mendicant fashion for financial help.” DoeHelpingHomeHandsJobsMarriageFourEconomicFashionWallHusbandFinancialReachingDependentReach OutFour Walls Author:Mary Barnett Gilson
“My advice to the 10 year old daughter is: fashion happens in a context. It's societal, it's cultural, it's historic, it's economic, and it's political. So all of her studies, everything that is happening in the world, all needs to be channeled through her in order to be a good designer.” WorldNeedsYearsHappensPoliticalOrderStudyEconomicAdviceFashionHappeningsDaughterDesignerHistoricGood Design Author:Tim Gunn
“We're richer, but that wealth doesn't reflect durable, authentic economic value - which is hitting fast diminishing returns. The growth that we're pursuing is neither sustainable - nor is it, in many ways, real growth at all. Boardrooms from finance to autos to energy to pharma to fashion have learned that the hard way.” WayRealHardValuesEnergyGrowthWealthBusinessEconomicFashionReturnFinanceHittingHard WayEconomic ValueDiminishing Returns Author:Umair Haque
“I reiterated our hope that negotiations over the United Kingdom's exit from the E.U. will be conducted in a smooth and orderly and transparent fashion and preserve as closely as possible the economic and political and security relationships between the U.K. and E.U.” PoliticalUnitedEconomicSecurityFashionKingdomsPreservesSmoothNegotiationTransparentExitOrderlyUnited Kingdom Author:Barack Obama