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...planning." Central planning, explains Huan Xiang, director general of Peking's Center for International Studies, "seriously hampered the initiative and creativity of enterprises and workers and to a great extent emasculated what would otherwise have been a vigorous economy. The more centralized, the more rigid; the more rigid, the lazier the people; the lazier the people, the poorer they are." Managers now are supposed to hustle in response to the same signals--interest rates, market demand, prices, profit--that guide Western businessmen. And just as the state will no longer take all profits, it will eventually stop subsidizing losses. Deng...
...frequent progress checks in the current system might well argue that the changes could result in higher grades for students who cut corners and do not put in the effort of their peers. But so what? Challenging bright students to produce important work—not penalizing their lazier peers—should be the ultimate goal of a Harvard education. It is more important to nurture those students who show flashes of individual insight than to engineer a system where talent is subordinated to graft...
Diamond said many people have tried to explainthis diversification phenomenon in racial terms,saying that Africans were simply lazier thanEuropeans and did not have the energy to migrate...
Diamond said many people have tried to explain this diversification phenomenon in racial terms, saying that Africans were simply lazier than Europeans and did not have the energy to migrate. His discoveries have shed new light on this situation, though, showing those ideas to be incorrect...
...these momentous changes simply herald a transformation in anti-black prejudice, not an end to it. Negative stereotypes about African-Americans remain widespread. One major national survey showed some 78 percent of whites perceived blacks as more likely to "prefer" living off of welfare, 65 percent perceived blacks as lazier than whites, 58 percent said blacks were more violence-prone and 56 percent said that blacks were less intelligent than whites. What is more, most whites blame blacks themselves, or African-American culture, for any remaining social disadvantages that blacks face. No doubt this helps explain the almost rabidly eager...