I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.
As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A...
My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that...
This is perhaps as good a place as any to point out that what distinguishes many reformers from those who cannot accept their proposals is not their greater philanthropy, but their greater impatience. The question is not whether we wish to see everyb...
All varieties of the producers' policy are advocated on the ground of their alleged ability to raise the party members' standard of living. Protectionism and economic self-sufficiency, labor union pressure and compulsion, labor legislation, minimum w...
An essential pedagogic step here is to relegate the teaching of mathematical methods in economics to mathematics departments. Any mathematical training in economics, if it occurs at all, should come after students have at the very least completed cou...
In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.
Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
Those responsible for our economic depression have been found irresponsible. The irresponsible are responsible!
Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.
The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.
In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.
Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.
Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.
Normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, combined with economic reforms and opening, transformed the Chinese people's lives.
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.
For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.
Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.
A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.
