
“We already spoke of lowering costs of food, labor, and transportation.”
2009, Speech: The Socio-Economic Peace Program of Senator Francis Escudero
2009, Speech: The Socio-Economic Peace Program of Senator Francis Escudero
“We already spoke of lowering costs of food, labor, and transportation.”
2009, Speech: The Socio-Economic Peace Program of Senator Francis Escudero
2009, Speech: The Socio-Economic Peace Program of Senator Francis Escudero
“The real enemies are overwork, under-payment, insecurity and bad conditions”
Speech to the National Institute of Industrial Psychology (12 November 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), pp. 55-56.
1925
Context: The fundamental question is how to make the most of the individual, with all his idiosyncrasies, in his work... these depressing features of the Industrial Revolution, whatever they have brought in their train inside workshops, have had a tendency to bring in their train outside workshops one very bad thing, and that is a dislike of work itself. If work can be presented in a palatable form, I am not sure that the ordinary human being does not like it, provided that he gets a reasonable amount of play. The real enemies are overwork, under-payment, insecurity and bad conditions... We must not exaggerate what is possible. You cannot abolish repetitive work; you cannot, even in a Socialist State; and, after all, the monotony of the workman's life is very much due to the monotony of the consumers' demands. If a man wants the same thing every day, the man who provides it will have a monotonous task.
Comments (via satellite) at the Seventh Annual Herzliya Conference in Israel. http://www.herzliyaconference.org/Eng/_Articles/Article.asp?ArticleID=1728&CategoryID=223
“Under no circumstances would we agree to any free-trade deal that put the NHS on the table.”
Boris Johnson: Premiership will be the start of a golden age https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49107417 BBC News (25 July 2019)
2010s, 2019
A Cost/Benefit Analysis of the Human Spirit : The Luddites Revisited (15 March 2003) http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer39.html.
The Liberals' Mistake (1987)
Context: What we need is a concept of "gross national cost." Life is a balance sheet, not simply economic growth. It is income and outgo. And until we know what the cost of growth is we will continue to operate under an illusion. As long as we consider only the growth of goods and ignore the growth of personal and community well-being, we will be impoverished by growth. That is what is happening in our society today.
Source: Social Costs of Business Enterprise, 1963, p. 186 cited in: Sebastian Berger and Mathew Forstater (2007) "Toward a Political Institutionalist Economics: Kapp’s Social Costs, Lowe’s Instrumental Analysis, and the European Institutionalist Approach to Environmental Policy". In: Journal of Economic Issues. Vol.XLI, No.2, June 2007. p. 539
Address at Illinois College (1881)