
Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 79.
Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. xviii.
Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 79.
Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 82.
“No one who works 40 hours a week will beat me in a marathon.”
Elite marathoners who work full time http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=6520216#6520293,
A Sense of the Mysterious : Science and the Human Spirit (2005), p. 200<!-- Pantheon Books isbn=0375423206 -->
Context: In the 1950s, academics forecast that as a result of new technology, by the year 2000 we could have a twenty-hour workweek. Such a development would be a beautiful example of technology at the service of the human being.... According to the Bureau of Statistics, the goods and services produced per hour of work in the United States has indeed more than doubled since 1950.... However, instead of reducing the workweek, the increased efficiencies and productivities have gone into increasing the salaries of workers.... Workers... rather have used their increased efficiencies and resulting increased disposable income to purchase more material goods.... Indeed, in a cruel irony, the workweek has actually lengthened.... More work is required to pay for more consumption, fueled by more production, in an endless, vicious circle.
Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 6, Problems Of Definition And Measurement, p. 132
Source: An Introduction To Probability Theory And Its Applications (Third Edition), Chapter II, Elements Of Combinatorial Analysis, p. 32.
“We try to get more done in two hours than other teams do in two weeks.”
Introduction to the 2006 Verso Edition, p. xi
The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition)
“Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week”
"Prof. Huxley Predicts 2-Day Working Week" The New York Times (17 November 1930) p. 42
Context: Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure.