For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society

It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

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

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 either. It is a deeply unfair and immoral system where everything can be taken away from anyone in a split second.

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 some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang, or Cambridge, MA.

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

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