At the opposite pole from the gift is tribute - that is, a grant made out of fear and under threat. A threat is a statement of the form "you do something that I want or I will do something that you do not want.

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society.

Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.

The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties.

The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.