They criticize the fact that the economic efficiency mentality long dominated the so-called scientific management practices without acknowledging workers' need for adequate communication and socialization while at work.
If the PM were to hold one of the Number 10 summits to which he has recently become prone, he would discover that the transatlantic contrast stems from a difference in economic and artistic mentalities.
From this economic soil the "hit mentality" flowered.
Reports on workers' conditions, the economic crisis, the expat mentality, and yes, even bad driving, are necessary and, I may add, are constantly featured in the local and regional media.
The year 1947 was the final year of modern Romania: liberal political and economic structures and individualist mentalities nurtured during the preceding century gave way to a collectivist model of development and an alien ideology.
So, too, is a mentality that sees economic pain as somehow redeeming, a mentality that a British journalist once dubbed "sado-monetarism".
But sometimes a run on a currency is driven not so much by economic fundamentals as by herd mentality.
In a rare interview published last week, Qu Geping, China's first environmental protection chief, placed the blame squarely on the country's "economic growth at all costs" mentality and on the political system.
Significantly, it means expanding our economic vision from the consumer mentality to that of the community builder.
Economists may point to signs of Russia's economic revival, but changing the Russian mentality will take far more than a few decades.
