Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an ….

A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government….

Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment a….

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that pr….

Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting..

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape..

There are lots of people who believe there may be at least some genetic component to procrastination, and even if there isn't, it seems to be the cas….

One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying..

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more..

In industries where a lot of competitors are selling the same product - mangoes, gasoline, DVD players - price is the easiest way to distinguish your….

I typically don't adopt the ascetic approach. In part, that's because I do use the Net for research even as I'm writing (to check facts, or so on). B….

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller..

I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely….

The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses..

The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes..

I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy in the US is ….

Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually imposs….

Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility..

Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one….

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars..

Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary par….