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Socialization is a primary transmission mechanism because families teach their sons and daughters to fit into roles that society has laid out for them, but socialization is an effect of inequality, not its cause. Where do these roles come
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“Companies are not immune to the psychology of scarcity. For example, during lean times, many firms slash their marketing budgets. Some experts believe that this is not a sound business decision. In fact, it looks a lot like tunneling.”
― Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
― Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
“Another manifestation of tunneling is the decision to multitask. We may check e-mail while “listening in” on a conference call, or squeeze in a bit more e-mail on the cell phone over dinner. This has the benefit of saving time, but it comes at a cost: missing something on the call or at dinner or writing a sloppy e-mail.”
― Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
― Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
“Imagine working on a presentation that you need to deliver at a meeting. In the days leading up to the meeting, you work hard but you vacillate. The ideas may be there, but tough choices need to be made on how to pull it all together. Once the deadline closes in, though, there is no more time for dawdling. Scarcity forces all the choices.”
― Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
― Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
“Life for women is getting better, but women are not yet equal citizens. Until it becomes a commonplace that fathers are as responsible for the care of children and home as mothers, markets will discriminate against women. Although this is more true in labor markets characterized by long-term contracts than elsewhere, it is true to some degree everywhere. It is time for men to share the same burdens and joys of family work. Judging from mortality statistics, less pressure to be strong, brave, and successful might do a man good.”
― Women, Work, and Power: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality
― Women, Work, and Power: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality
“While Steve Jobs was no doubt an inspiring genius worthy of praise, the fact that the iPhone/iPad empire was built on these State-funded technologies provides a far more accurate tale of technological and economic change than what is offered by mainstream discussions. Given the critical role of the State in enabling companies like Apple, it is especially curious that the debate surrounding Apple’s tax avoidance has tended to overlook this fact. Apple must pay tax not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it is the ultimate example of a company that requires the public purse to be large and risk-loving enough to continue making the investments that entrepreneurs like Jobs will later capitalize on (Mazzucato 2013b).”
― The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
― The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
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