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Are the Rich Necessary?
Are the Rich Necessary? is an ideal introduction to economics, a subject on everyone's mind following the global Crash of 2008. Transparently clear and easy to follow, Rich takes the reader through the great economic arguments of our day in an objective, fair, and always lively point-counterpoint format. It lays out the different value systems that guide all our economic choices. The book also offers a radical new proposal that transcends conventional liberal/conservative thinking. Whether you want to understand economics better, or need answers to vital questions that affect your job, your economic future, and the way you vote, this book will bring you much-needed clarity. Book jacket.
Foundation and Endowment Investing
In Foundation and Endowment Investing, authors Lawrence Kochard and Cathleen Rittereiser offer you a detailed look at this fascinating world and the strategies used to achieve success within it. Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this reliable resource profiles twelve of the most accomplished Chief Investment Officers within today’s foundation and endowment community—chronicling their experiences, investment philosophies, and the challenges they face—and shares important lessons that can be used as you go about your own investment endeavors.
A Question of Values
What personal values are. How we decide about them. What the alternatives are. Seventy-eight value systems featured. Used in classrooms at Harvard and around the world. Praised by educators from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Virginia, Berea College and elsewhere.
The Poor Me Manual
This is a rollicking fictional memoir that takes us through the ups and downs of the mysterious author's life. And what a life it is, full to the brim with every imaginable kind of neurotic behavior. You will often laugh out loud. But you will also learn a great deal about the emotions and about which emotional strategies work and which don't.
The Essence of Socrates
Socrates is important to us for many reasons. First, he recognized the value of logic and showed us how to use it to discover truth. Second, he led an exemplary and courageous life which cannot fail to inspire anyone who reads about it. His calm and eloquent defense of himself during the final trial for heresy, which ended in his condemnation and execution, are among the most famous passages in world literature. No one, apart from the great religious teachers, has had a more profound impact on human thought. Socrates himself wrote nothing. Fortunately his pupils Plato and Xenophon recorded his sayings for posterity. Indeed the connection between Socrates and Plato is so close that this littl...
Where Keynes Went Wrong
Presents an overview of the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes and offers a critique of the Keynesian economic strategy of borrowing and spending which has been used by the current Obama administration to deal with the fiscal crisis of 2009.
A Question of Values
The book seeks to answer the question, "What are my values?" It catalogs six types of alternative value systems formed on the basis of authority, logic, sense experience, emotion, intuition & science. There is a section on each value system, & readers can determine which systems most accurately describe themselves, their family, their friends & their colleagues. On one level the book explores how & why individuals choose the values they do. On another level it addresses a variety of social issues: whether values should or should not be taught in the classroom &, if so, how they can be taught without violating the freedom of choice which underlies pluralism in our society.
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