Talk:Peter Drucker
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I just added a few publications of Peter Drucker and sorted them alphabetically. Should we add the publicatBold text
- Certainly, that'd be useful info. Everyking 20:10, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
What does this mean? "Even successful programs, such as US Social Security, long ago ceased to be interesting to an increasingly alienated citizenry." Is this an accurate understanding of what Drucker believed? What does it mean for a pension program to be "uninteresting?"
It means that people are more likely to read a newspaper article about "troubles at NASA" or "a new leader for the National Park Service" than they are about "Social Security windfall only temporary, experts say." When Social Security was new, presumably, people were more interested in it. This is speculative, of course, as was a lot of what Drucker wrote, but it is not implausible. An exact quote, from the "Sickness of Government" chapter of AGE OF DISCONTINUITY (1968), is that "the welfare state turns out at best to be just another big insurance company, as exciting, as creative, and as inspriing as insurance companies tend to be. No one ever laid down his life for an insurance policy."
Should there not be a link somewhere to the peter drucker's wikiquotes?
