Good Questions Outrank Easy Answers.

Anyone With Special Abilities Earns A Differential Return On That Flair, Which We Economists Call A Rent. Those Few With Extraordinary P.q. (performance Quotient) Will Not Give Away Such Rent To The Ford Foundation Or The Local Bank Trust Department. They Have Too High An I.q. For That.

An Intriguing Paradox Of The 1990s Is That It Isn't Called A Decade Of Greed.

The Niceties Of Existence Were Not A Matter Of Concern, Yet Everything Around Was Closed Down Most Of The Time. If You Lived In A Middle-class Community In Chicago, Children And Adults Came Daily To The Door Saying, 'we Are Starving, How About A Potato?' I Speak From Poignant Memory.

Globalization Presumes Sustained Economic Growth. Otherwise, The Process Loses Its Economic Benefits And Political Support.

Asia's Governments Come In Two Broad Varieties: Young, Fragile Democracies - And Older, Fragile Authoritarian Regimes.