More Praise for The Self-Made Myth
“Miller and Lapham have powerfully demonstrated that there is no self-made man or woman. Individual success is absolutely dependent on public contributions to infrastructure, education, health, transportation, the stock market, and other protections of all kinds. If you use a computer, you are using the public’s research contributions to satellites, GPS systems, the Internet, and decades of computer science funding. Self-made? Ridiculous.”
—George Lakoff, author of The Political Mind and Don’t Think of an Elephant!
“Whether it was my father getting educated on the GI bill or the guy at the Small Business Administration encouraging me, I have always counted my blessings and been aware of my responsibility to ...
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