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Perched in a narrow loft above the leisurely bustle of his tobacco shop, Paul J. MacDonald gestures at the portraits of Fred Leavitt and Waldo Peirce hanging prominently on the other side of the room...
...1950s, the Ehrlich family, renowned Boston tobacconists and pipe makers, took over the store but made few changes to its interior. Richard and William Ehrlich ‘22, ‘25, who operated the store as well as the family’s historic tobacco shop in Boston, hired MacDonald’s father to manage both stores, and MacDonald himself began running Leavitt and Peirce in the mid-1980s...
...think in the old days, and it was literally a hangout. I mean, it was a shop, but it was also a place where people would gather and socialize,” MacDonald says. “I think society in general doesn’t have time to gather and socialize—people did it in the barber shop, they did it in the butcher shop. Now they plug in at Starbucks and barely have a conversation...
Remember the Volkswagen Scirocco? Didn't think so. Ever go out of your way to shop for Xylitol? Not lately, right? And it's a pretty safe bet you don't know too many people named Eleutheria...
...grader, but on a macroeconomic level.Reading about breakups via text message and unfortunate ways to find out that your mom is dating again may just be the perfect complement to a material world in which no employment relationship is safe, and your company may be flirting with setting up shop in China.The economist Joseph Schumpeter described economic growth under capitalism as a process of “creative destruction,” under which the old productive edifices are torn down in order to erect newer and more efficient modes of production. Few these days have the optimism to glimpse...