By Glenn Stehle
What drove that growth? Solidarity and organized national purpose. Americans worked together as a team during the war, and that solidarity continued into the postwar decades, behind an engaged and economically pro-active government.
–DAN KERVICK, “Market Myths and the Real Drivers of American Progress”
There’s nothing like an existential threat, such as the prospect of complete annihilation of one’s own group, to motivate behavior and focus one’s mind. Kervick’s quote reminded me of this:
