Archive for Merryle Stanley Rukeyser
An Intangible Bicentennial Monument
Mr. Rukeyser is well known as a business consultant, lecturer and columnist. A vast quantity of human energy wi1l soon be expended to commemorate our bicentennial year. Perhaps the most fitting monument would be intangible. In face of the seemingly insatiable appetite for gimmickry, it would be a ten-strike to go the other way and [...]
1Jan1976 | Merryle Stanley Rukeyser | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat Makes Jobs Scarce?
Mass unemployment means there’s been coercive interference in the market.
1Oct1975 | Merryle Stanley Rukeyser | 0 comments | ContinuedBusiness Baiting – 1972 Style
A plea for an attempt to understand the nature and function of business before destroying the entire economy.
1Jun1972 | Merryle Stanley Rukeyser | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Creative Thrust of Capitalism
Concerning the importance of saving and investment and freedom in developing nations.
1Jan1971 | Merryle Stanley Rukeyser | 0 comments | ContinuedDissent
Liberty tolerates dissent, but does not reward or excuse error.
1Nov1970 | Merryle Stanley Rukeyser | 0 comments | ContinuedWhen Republics Decay
Mr. Rukeyser is a business consultant, lecturer, and writer of the nationally syndicated column, "Everybody’s Money." A thoughtful design for national survival and progress must embrace matters of the spirit and of philosophy as well as physical tools and military hardware. Courage and adherence to high principle cannot be relegated to automatic machines, but must [...]
1Jan1962 | Merryle Stanley Rukeyser | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat Education Should Business Support?
Mr. Rukeyser is a business consultant, lecturer, and writer of the nationally syndicated column, "Everybody’s Money." The Congressman, who favored free enterprise, was berating business executives for their failure to flood the House of Representatives with mail and propaganda equal in size and weight to that from labor unions and sundry other critics of the [...]
1Mar1961 | Merryle Stanley Rukeyser | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Crusade Against Excellence
Mr. Rukeyser is a business consultant, lecturer, and writer of the nationally syndicated column, "Everybody’s Money." If the recent TV quiz scandals represented a mere trade malpractice, their significance would be circumscribed. But it seems to me that the recent episodes are surface symptoms of a deeper malady. The elaborate rigging to "control" programs on [...]
1Mar1960 | Merryle Stanley Rukeyser | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Philosophy of the Blur
Mr. Rukeyser is a business consultant, lecturer, and writer of the nationally syndicated column, "Everybody’s Money." The cold war with Iron Curtain countries puts traditional domestic issues into a fresh perspective. The wastes and peccadilloes, which are accepted with bemused tolerance in normal times, become dangerously unacceptable in interludes of crisis. Thus routine demagoguery, to [...]
1Jul1959 | Merryle Stanley Rukeyser | 0 comments | Continued-
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