How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (953 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00D61MM5Q |
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| Number of Pages | : | 113 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A very good analysis of the confused relationship between wealth and happiness Chip This book provides a very good analysis of the problems that arise as we confuse the relationship between wealth and happiness. The authors cover this misalignment by organizing their knowledge of history, philosophy, and economics in to a series of interesting and sensible chapters. Their observations are part. Thought Provoking Simon Burrow Why do we work so much? How Much is Enough is a dichotomy the first part of the book asks the question of how much is enough and looks to history, sociology and philosophy for answers. It does an excellent job of framing the questions and reviewing the literature.The second part (mostly the last chapter) is a s. "important ideas but a muddled analysis" according to Acorn. Robert Skidelsky is a noted economic historian and author of a three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes. His son Edward is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Exeter. Together they re-examine Keynes's idea of the `good life'. In the midst of the Great Depression, Keynes envisaged a future capital
It will not be ignored.. Clearly, he was wrong: though income has increased as he envisioned, our wants have seemingly gone unsatisfied, and we continue to work long hours.The Skidelskys explain why Keynes was mistaken. In 1930 Keynes predicted that, within a century, per capita income would steadily rise, people's basic needs would be met, and no one would have to work more than fifteen hours a week. Then, arguing from the premise that economics is a moral science, they trace the concept of the good life from Aristotle to the present and show how our lives over the last half century have strayed from that ideal. Finally, they issue