Lesson Number Three: The Garment Industry and Meaningful Work第三课:服装业和有意义的工作In 1889, Louis and Regina Borgenicht boarded an ocean liner in Hamburg bound for America. 1889年,路易斯(Louis)和瑞吉娜鲍各尼特(...
Once I said to him, 'What's the rest of our country like, Uncle Al?' 一次我问他,叔叔,这个国家的其他地方是什么样子的? And he said, 'Kiddo. When you leave New York, every place is Bridgeport.'他回答说,孩子,当你离开...
Think about this story for a moment. The first lesson is that Friedman was willing to work hard, 让我们回味一下这个故事。我们从中得到的第一条教益,是说弗雷德曼是想努力工作, take responsibility for himself, and p...
There was this generation of educators in the thirties and forties who would have been in another time and place college professors. 这些三四十年代的教育工作者,在另外的时代另外的地方可能就能成为大学教授。 They wer...
Here is what the economist H. ScotT Gordon once wrote about the particular benefits of being one of those children born in a small generation: 经济学家H斯科特戈登(H.ScottGordon)曾经这样描述出生在那一时期的人的专有待遇:...
Maurice Janklow was born in 1902. 莫里斯詹克洛出生于1902年, When the Depression started, he was newly married and had just bough his big car, 经济大萧条开始时,他刚结婚不久,刚买了一辆新车, moved to Queens, and ma...
Flom had the same experience. For twenty years, he perfected his craft at Skadden, Arps. 弗洛姆有着同样的经历,他用了20年的时间在世达律师事务所磨练着自己。 Then the world changed and he was ready. He didn't triumphed o...
Then came the 1970s. The old aversion to lawsuits fell by the wayside. 接着20世纪70年代来临了。原来人们对诉讼案件的鄙视态度被弃置一旁。 It became easier to borrow money. Federal regulations were relaxed. Markets became i...
The winner of a proxy contest was determined in the snake pit. (Officially, it was called the counting room.) 理权竞争人的赢家一般在龙潭虎穴中(正式的称呼是财务室)投票决定。 Lawyers for each side met with inspectors o...
Among my classmates at Harvard, the thing that bright young guys did was securities law or tax, another white-shoe partner remembers. Those were the distinguished fields. Litigation was for hams, not for serious people. Corporations just didn't sue e...