James Surowiecki Quotes About Country

• In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.

  James Surowiecki

  Country, Heart, Done

  "State of the Unions". www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2011.

• Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

  James Surowiecki

  Country, Tape, Developing Countries

  "Invisible Hand, Greased Palm". www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2012.

• Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation that has become not just popular but downright chic. The innovation - microfinance - involves making small loans to poor entrepreneurs, usually in developing countries.

  James Surowiecki

  Country, Fighting, Two

  "What Microloans Miss". www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.

• The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.

  James Surowiecki

  Country, Ceilings, United States

  "Smash the Ceiling". www.newyorker.com. August 1, 2011.

• Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.

  James Surowiecki

  Country, Nineteen, Attention

  "Invisible Hand, Greased Palm" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2012.

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