en
Dapatkan aplikasi:
iOS
·Android
The Value of Nothing
- Tentang
- Kutipan13
- Pembaca189
- Di rak buku
- Buku terkait
- b0174785621membuat kutipan4 tahun yang lalu
In other words, there is nothing natural about buying and selling things for profit, and allowing markets to determine their value. Before commodities can be bought and sold, they have to become objects that people think can be bought or sold. - b0174785621membuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluthere are now even prohibitions on the way we can place ourselves into markets. We are not, for instance, legally allowed to sell our organs. Give them away, yes. Sell, no.
- b0174785621membuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluProfessors Binding and Hoche took it a step further. They suggested that not all human life is worth the same, and that society as a whole could save money by killing the mentally ill.
- b0174785621membuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluIn the world of fund management, the systematic confusion surrounding what something is worth has made some people very rich.
- b0174785621membuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluOne thing is clear: The thinking that got us into this mess is unlikely to rescue us.
- b0174785621membuat kutipan4 tahun yang lalu“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
- b0174785621membuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluThe recession has not come from a deficit of economic knowledge, but from too much of a particular kind, a surfeit of the spirit of capitalism
- b0174785621membuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluIf war is God’s way of teaching Americans geography, recession is His way of teaching everyone a little economics.
- Olga Somembuat kutipan4 tahun yang lalu
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
—OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray - wilma deemembuat kutipan6 tahun yang lalu
Her 1957 book Atlas Shrugged, in which heroic business moguls fight
fb2epub
Seret dan letakkan file Anda
(maksimal 5 sekaligus)