Cynicism Is The Last Refuge

Anyone Believing The Tpp Is Good For Americans Take Note: The Foreign Subsidiaries Of U.s.-based Corporations Could Just As Easily Challenge Any U.s. Government Regulation They Claim Unfairly Diminishes Their Profits - Say, A Regulation Protecting American Consumers From Unsafe Products Or Unhealthy Foods, Investors From Fraudulent Securities Or Predatory Lending, Workers From Unsafe Working Conditions, Taxpayers From Another Bailout Of Wall Street, Or The Environment From Toxic Emissions.

When Top Executives Get Huge Pay Hikes At The Same Time As Middle-level And Hourly Workers Lose Their Jobs And Retirement Savings, Or Have To Accept Negligible Pay Raises And Cuts In Health And Pension Benefits, Company Morale Plummets. I Hear It All The Time From Employees: This Company, They Say, Is Being Run Only For The Benefit Of The People At The Top. So Why Should We Put In Extra Effort, Commit Extra Hours, Take On Extra Responsibilities? We'll Do The Minimum, Even Cut Corners. This Is Often The Death Knell Of A Company.

I Started In The Law; And The Study Of Law, When It Precedes The Study Of Economics, Gives You A Set Of Foundation Principles About How Human Beings Interact. Economics Is Very Useful, And I Studied Economics In Graduate School. But Without Understanding The Social And Organizational Context Of Economics, It Becomes A Theory Without Any Groundwork.

Every Organization, No Matter Who It Is, Just Follow The Money.

We Are Creating A One Size Fits All System That Needlessly Brands Many Young People As Failures, When They Might Thrive If Offered A Different Education Whose Progress Was Measured Differently. Paradoxically We're Embracing Standardized Tests Just When The Economy Is Eliminating Standardized Jobs.