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No More Work

Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea

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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.

©2016 James Livingston (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Economic History Economics Social Sciences Sociology Liberalism Employment Socialism Capitalism US Economy Taxation Economic Inequality
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A well thought out and entertaining thesis. Ultimately Livingston is coming from the left, I don't actually agree with much of what he says but still it is worth considering in its entirety. A great book for any serious thinker.

Funny but Serious

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It’s a thought provoking book with concept the author did his best to back up with renown philosophers and economists theories as well as current events. I don’t quite agree with all that is said, but I his argument is enough to give pause and rethink. Short and interesting read.

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I thought it would be a book about tips how to get out of work, but it is a political and sometimes philosophical discussion which bored me

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