7a Acknowledge that Money Isn't Everything "Excessive wealth engenders self-satisfied mediocrity," Leon Botstein says.
He would be quite comfortable and mighty pleased with the dizzying scope of trade in every commodity, product and service imaginable, and the incredible wealth engendered by that trade.
Hers was a brand of modesty, Mr. Langella writes, that "only great wealth can engender".
One of the most prominent proposals to avoid some of the pathologies that natural resource wealth can engender is the direct distribution of resource rents to the population.
In recent decades, China's growing wealth has engendered a thriving illegal market in endangered wildlife products.
Canada's Indigenous Constitution reflects on the nature and sources of law in Canada, beginning with the conviction that the Canadian legal system has helped to engender the high level of wealth and security enjoyed by people across the country.
Those forms of liquidity, the social relationships that they engendered, and the distribution of wealth that they supported were distinctively governed by a new approach to contract-an approach to contract that, with its sanctification of the ex ante terms of a promise for value, was very like the one that Horwitz flagged as the modern turn in his book.
The tendency of the newcomers -- known in local conversation as the Persians -- to speak with one another in Persian, bargain for better prices in local stores and build homes that are palatial even by Great Neck standards, coupled with their perceived wealth and insularity, have engendered hostility among some old-timers -- they're called the Americans.
Those attributes and the feelings they engendered were inextricable from her vast wealth and extreme visibility, embodied in hotels like the Park Lane on Central Park South or the Helmsley Palace on Madison Avenue.
Something is seriously, fundamentally flawed with a system that engenders this sort of disparity in wealth, and a new national campaign called 15 Now is trying to combat this.
