I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

Spread the truth-the laws of economics are like the laws of engineering. One set of laws works everywhere.

There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs

I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

One of those disturbing tendencies in academic life is that there is a desire on the part of many in the name of open-mindedness to fall into a kind of relativistic denialism in which all positions are equally legitimate, all positions must be respected, and compromise must be entered into no matter what the starting point or reasonableness of the two parties.