Virginia Postrel
Virginia Postrel
Virginia Inman Postrelis an American political and cultural writer of broadly libertarian, or classical liberal, views...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 January 1960
CountryUnited States of America
care caused costs increases intensity medical technical time
The growth of medical expenditures in the U.S. is not caused by administrative costs but by increases in the technical intensity of care over time - a.k.a. medical progress.
inspirational people levels
At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
perfect world glamour
Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
giving world opaque
Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.
real communication mba
Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it.
air luxury imagination
The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.
smart thinking skills
The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.
stamps impulse hard
The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.
doctors attention want
Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.
class cities middle
The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.
errors progress trials
Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.
responsibility individual-choice people
In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.
blue wife comedian
Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.
coffee mean cutting
Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.