Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good when individual people take pity on other people, but society as a whole has no such obligation. It is not an honest response to say society does have an obligation but it should be handled privately. Adam Smith's theory of the invisible hand explains how private greed gets channeled to socially productive ends. But no one suggests that private for-profit business can solve the homelessness problem. And there is no theory of an invisible hand to guarantee that private charity will be sufficient...
...have immensely mitigated the harshness of early capitalism, have in fact transformed it beyond recognition; but we have still not solved its basic contradiction. This is not, as Marx thought, economic but psychological: on the one hand, capitalism requires the engine of self-interest -- or greed, if you will -- while on the other hand, society requires attention to the general interest -- the taming of greed. We are still pulled back and forth between these two poles...
Stockholder gripes about executive greed are beginning to make dents in the armor of some of the nation's top brass. A proxy statement revealed last week the first application of Westinghouse Electric's tough pay-for-performance system, which slashed the income of CEO Paul Lego and 13 other top officers by as much as 62%. With that response to the company's $1 billion loss on nearly $13 billion of sales last year, Westinghouse joins IBM, which cut the compensation of chairman John Akers and four of his colleagues by 40% and took smaller cuts from 60 other...
...1970s at the venerable New York law firm of Webster & Sheffield. But his craving for power and wealth caused constant friction with partners, many of whom were relieved when Myerson was wooed away in 1984 by Finley, Kumble, an aggressive 700-lawyer firm that became synonymous with '80s-style greed...
...episodic, and most characters are fleeting, placing more stress on Dunne's performance than his lightweight, ingratiating style can bear. The first act is expository and lamely comic, acutely lacking the menace and madness that make the second act crackle. Sometimes the play is a chilling rumination on '80s greed. Sometimes it's merely upper Miami Vice. In either vein, it is supremely cynical. Korder asserts with equal force that run-amuck individualism is appalling and that it is the one sure path to triumph...