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...Leadership can foster a belief that we're all in it together. One of the most enduring images of the Asian meltdown was the sight of South Koreans lining up to donate gold wedding rings, jewelry and heirlooms to the country, helping rebuild foreign reserves. When Indonesia tried to emulate the gold-giving trick, Suharto's daughter was mocked as she went to donate her bit of gold. Rather than applauding her, Indonesians scoffed about how much her family had stolen from the country...
...resurgence of interest in Keynes also doesn't represent a full return to 1960s-style Keynesianism--the belief, shared by many economists and politicians in those days, that government could tame the business cycle and guarantee good economic times indefinitely...
Contrary to popular belief, Keynesian thinking was not a big part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Deficit spending and monetary easing were both first put to work in a really big way by the U.S. government in the 1940s--out of wartime necessity, not economic conviction. The economy responded with rapid growth, and after the war, Keynesianism became gospel. Its central tenet, this magazine explained in its 1965 cover story, was that "the modern capitalist economy does not automatically work at top efficiency, but can be raised to that level by the intervention and influence of the government...
...Contrary to popular belief, sex usually doesn't sell products. But controversies about sex in ads do (see Calvin Klein or Abercrombie & Fitch...
...Week End,” such a bizarre and troubling masterpiece. Godard, it seems, approached his work with the expectation that his work satisfy an artistic vision first and foremost. That vision grew increasingly personal and inaccessible as his career moved past the 60’s, but his belief in not only alienating the audience, but also ridiculing them, rendered some of the most miraculous and important films of the 20th century...