Assume The Worst About People And You

In Manufacturing, Where Mechanization And The Use Of Chemical Processes Are Much Easier, It Is Easier To Raise Productivity Than In Services. In Contrast, By Their Very Nature, Many Service Activities Are Inherently Impervious To Productivity Increase Without Diluting The Quality Of The Product.

Gore Vidal, The American Writer, Once Described The American Economic System As 'free Enterprise For The Poor And Socialism For The Rich'. Macroeconomic Policy On The Global Scale Is A Bit Like That. It Is Keynesianism For The Rich Countries And Monetarism For The Poor.

The Korean Economic Miracle Was The Result Of A Clever And Pragmatic Mixture Of Market Incentives And State Direction.

Since The 1980s, We Have Given The Rich A Bigger Slice Of Our Pie In The Belief That They Would Create More Wealth, Making The Pie Bigger Than Otherwise Possible In The Long Run. The Rich Got The Bigger Slice Of The Pie All Right, But They Have Actually Reduced The Pace At Which The Pie Is Growing.

If We Are Really Serious About Preventing Another Crisis Like The 2008 Meltdown We Should Simply Ban Complex Financial Instruments, Unless They Can Be Unambiguously Shown To Benefit Society In The Long Run. This Is What We Do All The Time With Other Products-drugs, Cars, Electrical Products And Many Others.