Atlanta, GA December 17, 2020 When you toss private thoughts into the public pool, you risk getting wet. Yesterday, I got soaked. That’s OK. I ventured toward the deep end, so was prepared to be splashed. But in this case, I spouted a number of notions, so it’s probably not a bad idea to grab […]
Atlanta, GADecember 3, 2020 We never know where, or how, we’ll be influenced. Or the effect it will have. In April 1990, I was twenty-one years-old, and had just moved to Sacramento. I lived in a small apartment in the bedroom community of Rocklin. Fresh from college, I knew no one, and started work in […]
Atlanta, GA November 13, 2020 Oscar Wilde defined a cynic as someone who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. But what if Price and Value are estranged, making it hard for either to know anything? Price is a child of Value, which can sometimes be a deadbeat dad. Support is seldom […]
by John D. Breen University of San Francisco December 1996 Businesses neither derive from nor exist in a vacuum. Rather, they emerge from, evolve in, and are influenced by the trends of the society in which they operate. That that society today comprises the greater extent of the globe renders cognizance of this fact essential. […]
Atlanta , GAMay 30, 2020 Last Monday politicians plied the usual platitudes honoring those who “gave their lives so we can be free”, even as they ordered us to cower in our homes, keep away from others, or hide under a mask. As Pat Buchanan put it, we are treated like children awaiting permission to […]
By John D. Breen Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Economics April 1998 What follows is a description of characteristics and features of Sonoma County, California, to be utilized primarily for economic analysis. As a thorough comprehension and useful application of the traditional economic information cannot be attained without an appreciation for the area to […]
The following was submitted to the Georgia Tech Journal of Economics in 1997. by John D. Breen Georgia Institute of Technology October 15, 1997 The history of Argentina is one of Indian settlement, colonial exploration, republic, military dictatorship, and, more recently, incipient capitalism. Regrettably, it is also one of varying degrees of poverty, a condition […]
Atlanta, GA May 9, 2020 “Happy Friday!”, came the contrived cheer to start another all-day conga line of Zoom meetings. “I’ll take your word for it that it’s Friday”, I replied. Like an extended vacation…but staying home to work rather than traveling for fun…weekdays now run together, each indistinguishable from the last. Weekends provide some […]