For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society.

The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... . For while there may be….

As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly reality of many exotic po….

What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially available to all count….

If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical b….

The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared.

To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard.

It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self….

Be afraid of the Chinese. I mean, the Chinese shoot down satellites in space; they hack into Google's computers; the Osama bin Laden people can't mak….

China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system is not going to work eith….

The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of o….

In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advant….

Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-intere….

If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms....such ….

Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation.