A Question of Values: Six Ways We Make the Personal Choices That Shape Our Lives

Axios Press

Are the rich compatible with democracy? Should we accept such a high degree of inequality in our society? Does the profit system glorify greed? In /Are the Rich Necessary?/ Hunter Lewis presents the most fundamental and provocative economic arguments that underlie society. Lewis connects economics directly with profound contemporary social issues. How are our personal values reflected in these issues and how do we choose between contending economic approaches? Most importantly, can philanthropy play a strategic role in helping people to lift themselves from poverty? Lewis offers a dramatic new proposal to significantly increase contributions to charitable organizations to help address key social issues. A challenging and sure to be influential book.

Are the Rich Necessary?: Great Economic Arguments and How They Reflect Our Personal Values

Business & Money

Lewis, Hunter

Business Culture

For this edition of her well established book, Mary Warnock has made a number of additions, in particular a discussion of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. These bring up to date a well-informed and discriminating account of the main ethical problems of the twentieth and 21st centuries.

Ethics Since 1900

Politics & Social Sciences

Warnock, Mary

Philosophy

Bruce Cook of the Washington Post Book World has written that: Bohemia has become an acceptable, even desirable lifestyle all around America, and indeed the world over. But to understand how this happened, how an alternative lifestyle became so mainstream, and also to visit what many consider to be Bohemia's golden age, there is no better source than Gold.

Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love and Strong Coffee Meet

Biographies & Memoirs

GOLD, Herbert

Arts & Literature

The modern period to mid-20th century.

History of Ethics: Modern and Contemporary Ethics

Bourke, Vernon J.

Nonsense is the best compilation and study of verbal logical fallacies available anywhere. It is a handbook of the myriad ways we go about being illogical―how we deceive others and ourselves, how we think and argue in ways that are disorderly, disorganized, or irrelevant. Nonsense is also a short course in nonmathematical logical thinking, especially important for students of philosophy and economics. A book of remarkable scholarship, Nonsense is unexpectedly relaxed, informal, and accessible.

Nonsense: Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows: How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language

Gula, Robert J.

How Much Money Does an Economy Need? takes a subject that most people find difficult to decipher and makes it easy to understand. Not only easy, but fascinating, with startling insights in every chapter. This book is especially recommended for informed readers and public policy makers who want to get to the bottom of economics so that they can make better choices.

How Much Money Does an Economy Need?: Solving the Central Economic Puzzle of Money,Prices, and Jobs

Economics

This little book contains some of the greatest wisdom literature of the ages. Everyone, and especially young people, should be familiar with it. Both Epicureanism and Stoicism taught that if we want to be happy and productive, we must strengthen and train our willful and wayward minds. There are echoes of the Buddha's Dhammapada. The passages selected are both beautiful and moving.

Epicureans and Stoics

Axios Institute

Children of the Sun is a story of brilliant and later famous young people who deliberately chose decadence as an alternative lifestyle. The setting is England between World War I and World War II. The cast of characters includes Evelyn Waugh, Randolph Churchill, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and Cecil Beaton among others.

Children of the Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in England After 1918

History

Green, Martin B.

Europe

This book describes the joy of family life on a very remote mountaintop farm. There is moon-lit sledding, fall garden harvesting, a world of birds and wild animals, all punctuated by the father's long daily commute to a real world job. Values of simplicity, self-sufficiency, and being a part of nature are exemplified.

Escape to the Mountain: A Family's Adventures in the Wilderness

Bonta, Marcia

Historical

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