The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

The Japanese economy is on the rebound, and e-commerce is set to benefit. In its deployment of both wired and wireless Internet platforms, and their integration, the county will be a model for the rest of the world to emulate.

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.