Quotes from levy frank

Computers are Janus-faced, helping to create jobs even as they destroy jobs.

Firms adopt computers to gain a particular competitive advantage. Realizing computers' potential requires reorganizing work. As computers proliferate in the workplace, the jobs they create, destroy, and change are the byproduct of this work reorganization.

Too many moderately skilled people are chasing too few moderately skilled jobs with a resulting downward pressure on wages.

America is a country where an opportunity society and a class society coexist within the same borders.

Getting an education by itself, of course, does not guarantee financial success. There must, after all, be an increase in demand for educated labor to match the increase in supply.

Writing about an economy is like writing about a river. The backdrop is the motion, a constant evolution with no beginning or end. The stories mix human effort and impersonal forces, sometimes working together, sometimes in opposition.