I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.

Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.

Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.

Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.

From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view, it's good for people to be able to leave places where there's less work and move to places where there's more.

The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.

Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)