We Are Like Highly Trained Athletes, Who

If We Made An Income Pyramid Out Of A Child's Blocks, With Each Layer Portraying $1,000 Of Income, The Peak Would Be Far Higher Than The Eiffel Tower, But Almost All Of Us Would Be Within A Yard Of The Ground.

An Intriguing Paradox Of The 1990s Is That It Isn't Called A Decade Of Greed.

What Counts Is Results, And There Can Be No Doubt That The Soviet Planning System Has Been A Powerful Engine For Economic Growth...the Soviet Model Has Surely Demonstrated That A Command Economy Is Capable Of Mobilizing Resources For Rapid Growth.

We Are Like Highly Trained Athletes, Who Never Run A Race.

Anyone With Special Abilities Earns A Differential Return On That Flair, Which We Economists Call A Rent. Those Few With Extraordinary P.q. (performance Quotient) Will Not Give Away Such Rent To The Ford Foundation Or The Local Bank Trust Department. They Have Too High An I.q. For That.