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...define. It is his unique struggle to reconcile the values of both worlds that render his work a worthy read. Not only are his views of child-rearing surprisingly modern for the 20s, but he also incorporates such stereotypically American ideas as that of personal living-space and the capitalist work ethic alongside more traditional concepts of sin and religion. Though of Christian heritage and clearly inspired by the Bible, Gibran does not constrain his concept of spirituality to one particular doctrine, and thus Almustafa’s words stil resonate with a modern-day agnostic. “Religion...
Kawasaki should know, of course. He has a formidable résumé: author of eight other business books (including the best seller The Art of the Start), entrepreneur, venture capitalist and blogger who rose to fame at Apple. In his new book, Kawasaki takes the role of mentor and big brother to those in start-up mode or even restart mode. At times he sounds like an irreverent Silicon Valley Emily Post; his highly readable book is an encyclopedia of proper behavior for entrepreneurs. The author eagerly teaches readers "how to suck up to a blogger," "kick butt on a panel...
...studied by historians when the markets' latest gyrations and Sarah Palin's appearance on Saturday Night Live are long forgotten. Behind the document's clunky sentences constructed from boilerplate Party phraseology are changes that will vault China into the next, irrevocable stage of its evolution into a fully capitalist economy - but could also spark one of the biggest mass migrations in history and push the country's already fragile social balance closer to collapse...
...ignore the parallels between, for example, President Salvador Allende's nationalization of Chile's banks and copper industry in 1970, and the U.S. government's recent purchase of part of insurance giant AIG and its bailout of several financial behemoths. It is interesting that the crisis in the capitalist system has been met with the kind of government interference in the economy that was once viewed with dismay. Elliott Wollner, Melbourne...
...work in a really big way by the U.S. government in the 1940s--out of wartime necessity, not economic conviction. The economy responded with rapid growth, and after the war, Keynesianism became gospel. Its central tenet, this magazine explained in its 1965 cover story, was that "the modern capitalist economy does not automatically work at top efficiency, but can be raised to that level by the intervention and influence of the government...