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Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea
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James Livingston
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For centuries we've believed that work was where you learned discipline, initiative, honesty, self-reliance - in a word, character. A job was also, and not incidentally, the source of your income: if you didn't work, you didn't eat, or else you were stealing from someone. If only you worked hard, you could earn your way and maybe even make something of yourself.
In recent decades, through everyday experience, these beliefs have proven spectacularly false. In this book, James Livingston explains how and why Americans still cling to work as a solution rather than a problem - why it is that both liberals and conservatives announce that "full employment" is their goal when job creation is no longer a feasible solution for any problem, moral or economic. The result is a witty, stirring denunciation of the ways we think about why we labor, exhorting us to imagine a new way of finding meaning, character, and sustenance beyond our workaday world - and showing us that we can afford to leave that world behind.
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From the best-selling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state. Dysfunctional government: It' s become a cliché, and most of us are resigned to the fact that nothing is ever going to change. As John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge show us, that is a seriously limited view of things. In fact, there have been three great revolutions in government in the history of the modern world.
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A must read for everyone wondering whats going?
- De Truth-be-told en 03-30-15
De: John Micklethwait, y otros
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The Secret Knowledge
- On the Dismantling of American Culture
- De: David Mamet
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
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For the past 30 years, David Mamet has been a controversial and defining force in theater and film, championing the most cherished liberal values along the way. In some of the great movies and plays of our time, his characters have explored the ethics of the business world, embodied the struggles of the oppressed, and faced the flaws of the capitalist system. But in recent years Mamet has had a change of heart.
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Mamet's Rubicon
- De Kirk en 08-13-11
De: David Mamet
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The Voice of Reason
- Essays in Objectivist Thought
- De: Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 15 h y 55 m
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In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces are gathered together in book form for the first time. Written in the last decades of Rand's life, they reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. With them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rand's longtime associate and literary executor.
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Explains Everything Of Today
- De L. Nicholson en 11-20-15
De: Ayn Rand, y otros
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Creating Freedom
- The Lottery of Birth, the Illusion of Consent, and the Fight for Our Future
- De: Raoul Martinez
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 17 h y 35 m
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A manifesto for deep and radical change, Creating Freedom explores the limits placed on freedom by human nature and society. It explodes myths, calling for a profound transformation in the way we think about democracy, equality, and our own identities.
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The BEST book, I've listened to in a long time
- De G. Newton en 04-16-17
De: Raoul Martinez
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The 9.9 Percent
- The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture
- De: Matthew Stewart
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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In 21st century America, the top 0.1 percent of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90 percent have lost ground. What’s left of the American Dream has taken refuge in the 9.9 percent that lies just below the tip of extreme wealth. Collectively, the members of this group control more than half of the wealth in the country - and they are doing whatever it takes to hang on to their piece of the action in an increasingly unjust system.
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Fantastic
- De Davena en 01-05-23
De: Matthew Stewart
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The Socialist Temptation
- De: Iain Murray
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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Just 30 years ago, socialism seemed utterly discredited. An economic, moral, and political failure, socialism had rightly been thrown on the ash heap of history after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Unfortunately, bad ideas never truly go away — and socialism has come back with a vengeance. A generation of young people who don’t remember the misery that socialism inflicted on Russia and Eastern Europe is embracing it all over again.
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Full Of Important Insights
- De Ralph Alderson en 12-17-20
De: Iain Murray
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A New Textbook of Americanism
- De: Jonathan Hoenig - editor
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hoenig
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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Most people have no idea what the United States represents. Ayn Rand did grasp America's political essence down to its roots. Seventy-two years in the making, this book illuminates why the United States is "the only moral country in the history of the world" and features never-before-published discussions with Ayn Rand, plus work from Leonard Peikoff and the New Intellectuals.
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A Great Introduction to Objectionism
- De Lester C Liby en 06-27-19
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The Great Degeneration
- How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Paul Slack
- Duración: 4 h y 18 m
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Best-selling author and world-renowned historian Niall Ferguson has won widespread acclaim for thought-provoking works such as Civilization and High Financier. The Great Degeneration tackles nothing less than the decline of Western civilization. Ferguson posits that slowing growth, outrageous debt, and antisocial behavior are contributing to the erosion of the West’s once rock-solid foundations. Ferguson excavates the causes and shows how heroic leadership and radical reform are needed to right the course.
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Superb as always!
- De Ivanhoe en 08-28-17
De: Niall Ferguson
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Someone Has to Say It
- The Hidden History of How America Was Lost
- De: Tom Kawczynski
- Narrado por: Jeff Winston
- Duración: 5 h y 38 m
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Starting at the turn of the last century, this book lays out systematically how Americans have lost control of our government, of our civil society, of our schools, of our companies, and in many cases, even our families.
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Great and inspiring book
- De K. E. Davila en 07-09-20
De: Tom Kawczynski
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Libertarianism
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- De: Jason Brennan
- Narrado por: Nicholas Ramsey
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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Historically, Americans have seen libertarians as far outside the mainstream, but with the rise of the Tea Party movement, libertarian principles have risen to the forefront of Republican politics. But libertarianism is more than the philosophy of individual freedom and unfettered markets that Republicans have embraced. Indeed, as Jason Brennan points out, libertarianism is a quite different - and far richer - system of thought than most of us suspect. In this timely new entry in Oxford's acclaimed series What Everyone Needs to Know, Brennan offers a nuanced portrait of libertarianism.
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very informative
- De S. Schmidt en 09-21-19
De: Jason Brennan
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- Thomas James Wright
- 08-11-21
Not What I Expected At All - Way Better Though
Excellent practical & philosophical recommendation for an all out, socioeconomic reformation. This book is definitely in line with my own research on STEM Theory and The AI STEM Drive.
Brilliantly thought out and well written!
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- Kristin in Columbus
- 06-17-17
Could've used another draft
The arguments proposed in this book are compelling, but it reads like a draft, not a finished work. His definition of "work" seems to morph throughout the book, and some of his arguments aren't fleshed out enough. Still worth a read.
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- Chris & Betsy
- 03-13-17
A much-needed counterbalance to current thinking
A fun, provocative, and--ultimately--convincing case. Jobs are becoming less remunerative and fulfilling. Livingston explains why we should stop obsessing over them and focus on what we enjoy. Can we get workaholic politicians to listen?
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- DB in TN
- 04-13-24
rumsfeld and Cheney running an UBI program in the 1960s!
none to change in this book, the ideas are interesting. good history lessons good things to plan for the future
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- MANNY
- 11-21-20
what a joke
there so many flaws with this book. bunch of half bake ideas with no substance.
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- wbiro
- 02-23-22
Sadly Clueless
A product of Continued Universal Human Cluelessness (so the author's cluelessness is by no means unique). Has no clue as to what to do when we are not working, and has no clue as to what we all SHOULD be cooperatively working toward (because the author has not read the Philosophy of Broader Survival) (the hint is in the title). Also speaks highly of Marx (who was wrong, the problem with humanity was not economic, but philosophical), and seems Pie in the Sky, as if money were freely ubiquitous. Peppers the book with preposterous argument for the Left (one example: they are for the traditional family). Good God. Debate team assignment? He fails, needness to say, and worse, he seems to have searched hard for bad science (and for any science, and not all is good - 85% of published papers cannot be duplicated) to validate his twisted sophism. A social manipulator when nothing needs manipulating, playing FDR and the New Deal when there is no massive immediate crisis (and when FDR's philosophy was 'to do something', anything, and the New Deal was the first thing that came to his mind, meaning he really wasn't a Socialist, just a 'man of action'). People like this author have not read that part of history. They are Socialism for Socialism's sake.
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