Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists.

Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists.

Here's the positive scenario: that something has been going wrong in American society. You see it in wage growth, opioid abuse, many other social indicators, as you know. Sometimes it's better to get the bad reaction to that over with quickly while your civil society still is strong and you can react and respond and protest, and you know, four or eight years from now, make another decision, and maybe it's better to have that happen in 2017 than 20 years later when some of our problems are worse and our national mood is worse.

Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what it’s done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do.

Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.