Greenspan was also against regulating the "derivatives" they invested in - securities derived from making bets on the future prices of real assets, such as those tied to rising home values.
As a founder of the online photography service Ofoto, Kamran Mohsenin took note of the pleasure and pride his customers derived from making personalized calendars and books.
As a result, about 10% of the total carbon footprint of the business is derived from making and recycling the boxes.
Because the pleasure people derive from sounds has always been closely related to the pleasure they derive from making the sounds themselves, it is difficult to conceive of the origin of music as separate from an act of musical performance.
About understanding, as Michael Porter and Mark Kramer suggest ("Creating Shared Value," HBR January February 2011), that not all profits are created equal: Profits derived from making the world better are superior to those derived from the consumption of useless, or even harmful, junk.
However accurate and detailed, such a work has the tidy airlessness of a model-train layout but none of the gravitas that such little railyards and townscapes derive from making faithful reference to homely things.
Pastoral farmers can easily adopt this type of livestock farming since few management changes are needed, whereas there is a considerable financial premium derived from making this change, and there appears to be no risk to the preservation of biodiversity (Hole et al. 2005).
After finishing business school in Poland, Ajdacki spent years pursuing a career that utilized his degree, before finally deciding that he'd rather focus his life on the satisfaction he derives from making things.
"The satisfaction derived from making something so delicious out of a pile of flour and eggs is incredible, and the difference between that and store-bought 'fresh' pasta is night and day," says chef, restaurateur and TV star Mario Batali.
Finally, the main variable of interest productivity of a decision reflects the degree of benefit a person might be expected to derive from making that decision in a hypothetical scenario.
Self-sustaining skills are making a big resurgence as people start to realize the quality and self-satisfaction derived from making your own.
