Unchanging job figures may mask churn — businesses moving in and out of the market, workers moving from job to job.
SEEN from the perfect lawn beside the white colonial-era walls of Sam Jonah's house in Obuasi, Ghana, gold mining seems to be an unchanging and tranquil business.
Case 1: both unchanging congestion line and marginal units.
Yet Mr. Morris is also an embodiment of one of the unchanging realities of the music business: that despite all the changes in technology, there is still money to be made in hits, and staying successful means holding on to a bigger piece of a shrinking pie.
Navigating new moral imperatives in a fundamentally unchanging industry is a messy business.
Case 3: changing congestion line, unchanging marginal units.
FOR decades, even after it was renamed and relocated from its original home at Radcliffe, the Columbia Publishing Course seemed unchanging, a genteel summer tradition in the book business, a white-glove six-week course in which ambitious college graduates were educated in the time-honored basics of book editing, sales, cover design and publicity.
Yet supermarkets offer a distorted map of a flat, unchanging world without seasons or reasons to question how we do business, where an already over-consuming population is encouraged to purchase ever more, in such a way that we end up wasting one third of the precious food we buy.
For all the changes in the music business, Mr. Morris, 72, "is also an embodiment of one of the unchanging realities of the music business: that despite all the changes in technology, there is still money to be made in hits, and staying successful means holding on to a bigger piece of a shrinking pie".
Download: 'Distant Call'; 'Unchanging Window'.
