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Today the situation is in one way no different. Instead of US companies “off-stating,” they are offshoring. Instead of multistate, national companies, we have multinational, global companies. And instead of buying nationally, most American consumers buy globally, demonstrating almost no loyalty to buying American-made goods. Price and quality are king; origin and production location at best are afterthoughts.

Big Is Beautiful

Robert D. Atkinson, Michael Lind

In the domain of uncertainty, meanwhile, probabilities aren’t handed to us; we need to formulate them from data or knowledge. This necessarily leads to less-than-perfect confidence that we’ll calculate those probabilities correctly, or even well enough.

The Technologized Investor

Ashby H.B. Monk and Dane Rook

The reciprocity between leaders’ ability to be less avoidant of emotional factors in their family of origin and their ability to function likewise within the emotional system where they work was exactly the same for managers, clergy, therapists, physicians, or parents.

A Failure of Nerve

Edwin H. Friedman

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