Friends play an important part in our lives, and although we may take the friendship for granted, we often don't clearly understand how we make friends. While we get on well with a number of people, w
Adam Smith, writing in the 1770s, was the first person to see the importance of the division of labor and to explain part of its'advantages. He gives as an example the process by which pins were made
Does a bee know what is going on in its mind when it navigates its way to 11 food sources and back to the hive, using polarized sunlight and the tiny magnet it carries as a navigational aid? Or is the
Tight-lipped elders used to say, "It's not what you want in this world, but what you get. " Psychology teaches that you do get what you want if you know what you want and want the right thin
Resources can be said to be scarce both in an absolute and in a11 sense: the surface of the Earth is limited,12absolute scarcity, but the scarcity that concerns economists is the relative scarcity of
The first person to use the sun's energy on a large scale was the Greek, Archimedes. He used it to set fire to an attacking Roman fleet at Syracuse in 212 B. C.. He did this by means of a burning glas
Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I know of. It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable prices, thereby establishing a firm home market and so maki
Some years ago industries had more freedom than they have now, and they did not need to be as careful as they must today. They did not need to worry a lot about the safety of the new products that the
There's one thing above all wrong with the new British postal codes: not everyone has that sort of memory. Some of us, of course, forget even house numbers and the present postal districts, but that m
Nowadays more and more foreign enterprises and companies are no longer relying on interviews for recruitment (招聘). Years of studying interviewing have made clear that it is not a very objective pr