Making Rich People Richer Doesn't Make The

Self-interest, To Be Sure, Is One Of The Most Important, But We Have Many Other Motives - Honesty, Self-respect, Altruism, Love, Sympathy, Faith, Sense Of Duty, Solidarity, Loyalty, Public-spiritedness, Patriotism, And So On - That Are Sometimes Even More Important Than Self-seeking As The Driver Of Our Behaviors.

The Widely Accepted Assertion That, Only If You Let Markets Be Will Everyone Be Paid Correctly And Thus Fairly, According To His Worth, Is A Myth. Only When We Part With This Myth And Grasp The Political Nature Of The Market And The Collective Nature Of Individual Productivity Will We Be Able To Build A More Just Society In Which Historical Legacies And Collective Actions, And Not Just Individual Talents And Efforts, Are Properly Taken Into Account In Deciding How To Reward People.

The Top 10 Per Cent Of The Us Population Appropriated 91 Per Cent Of Income Growth Between 1989 And 2006, While The Top 1 Per Cent Took 59 Per Cent.

To Paraphrase Winston Churchill, Capitalism Is The Worst Economic System Except For All The Other Forms.

[good Managers] Know That People Have 'good' Sides And 'bad' Sides And That The Secret Of Good Management Is In Magnifying The Former And Toning Down The Latter.