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By the rivers of Babylon

By Lewis H. Lapham

The Puritan ethic of hard work and saving still matters. I just hate the idea that such an ethic is more alive today in China than in America…. We need to get back to collaborating the old-fashioned way. That is, people making decisions based on business judgment, experience, prudence, clarity of communications and thinking about how—not just how much.

—Thomas Friedman, New York Times, October 15, 2008

Lewis H. Lapham is the National Correspondent for Harper’s Magazine and the editor of Lapham’s Quarterly.

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SEE ALSO: Greenspan, Alan; Capitalists and financiers; Financial crises; Privateering; Friedman, Thomas L.; Views on financial crisis; Work ethic
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November 2009

FINAL EDITION
Twilight of the American Newspaper
By Richard Rodriguez

THE INTELLIGENCE FACTORY
How America Makes Its Enemies Disappear
By Petra Bartosiewicz

PROSPEROUS FRIENDS
A story by Christine Schutt

Also: Frederick Seidel and Mark Kingwell

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