There is one thing I can say about working in a steel mill. If it does not kill you, it will make a man out of you.
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.
You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.
I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.
When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.
I don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books.
A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.
The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.
As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.
Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.
In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.
I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.
I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.
When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down.
I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.
I have lots of interests, but it's true that dancing is a very full-time job.
Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas.
