Quotes from Lester Thurow

Probably no country has ever had as large a shift in the distribution of wealth [as what we've seen in the U.S. in the last 30 years] without having gone through a revolution or losing a major war.

Technology and Ideology are shaking the foundations of 21st century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage.

A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.

We've believed for 50 years that the Japanese are small Americans who wanted to be like us. They are not.

AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things which the inventor cannot or does not see.