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The most important economic events of the future… will be unprecedented events. Their unprecedented nature means we won’t be prepared for them, which is part of what makes them so impactful.
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128 |
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…stories are, by far, the most powerful force in the economy.
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193 |
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Except for the very poor, for whom income coincides with survival, the main motivators of money-seeking are not necessarily economic.
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342 |
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Managerialism has become the pretext for creating a new covert form of feudalism, where wealth and position are allocated not on economic but political grounds…
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180 |
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…not only is the social value of work usually in inverse proportion to its economic value (the more one’s work benefits others, the less one is likely to be paid for it), but many people have come to accept this situation as morally right…
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196 |
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Just as commodities have economic ‘value’ because the can be compared precisely with other commodities, ‘values’ are valuable because they cannot be compared with anything. They are each considered unique, incommensurable – in a word, priceless.
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204 |
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Suffering has become a badge of economic citizenship. It’s not that much different than a home address. Without it, you have no right to make any other claim.
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243 |
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It’s hard to imagine a surer sign that one is dealing with an irrational economic system than the fact that the prospect of eliminating drudgery is considered to be a problem.
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261 |
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In the knowledge economy, the main task for top management is to define and implement the organizational rules of the game.
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020 |
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We literally need rules of the game. Hierarchies provide such rules. In a sense, they are the key rules in a modern economy.
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021 |
