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SKIDELSKY Robert; SKIDELSKY Edward: "How much is enough? Money and the Good Life", London 2012
Father and son have written a book. At a conference in Dürnstein I could hear these theses from fathers voice. This gave the impetus to read the book.
For interesting pages of a book I always make a dog-ear in the page. In this book, I would have almost all of the pages with such a "dog- ear" provided.
The very first sentence: „Nothing is enough fort he man to whom enough is too little.“
Capitalism has brought on one hand, an improvement of the human condition, but at the same time reinforced greed, envy and avarice . Our Western culture - influenced by religion - but has different principles and sees avarice is a vice.
The "western world" is so well developed that it would be sufficient that only 15 hours per week is worked and everyone would be still satisfied . You would not get less money. "...The material conditions of the good life already exist, at least in the affluent parts of the world , but that the blind pursuit of growth puts it continually out od reach.“ (Page 13)
The income has risen continuously in recent decades, but the happiness of the people has not kept pace. The rich have become even richer. "in the 1970 the pay of a top American CEO was under 30 times that of the average worker; today it is 263 times." (Page 30)
The authors confront questions such as "What is wealth for? How much money do we need to lead a good life?" (Page 5)
The authors are not compliant with the classic environmentalists to make the growth responsible for climate change. They even think that "It might rather require us to persevere with growth, so as to finance the technologies needed to mitigate ist consequences.“ (Page 124)
It is in this book not only criticized but also delivered approaches.

(Hinterbrühl , 29.03.2014)

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@book{Edward2014,
title = {How much is enough? Money and the Good Life},
author = {SKIDELSKY Robert; SKIDELSKY Edward},
year  = {2014},
date = {2014-03-29},
abstract = {SKIDELSKY Robert; SKIDELSKY Edward: "How much is enough? Money and the Good Life", London 2012
Father and son have written a book. At a conference in Dürnstein I could hear these theses from fathers voice. This gave the impetus to read the book.
For interesting pages of a book I always make a dog-ear in the page. In this book, I would have almost all of the pages with such a "dog- ear" provided.
The very first sentence: „Nothing is enough fort he man to whom enough is too little.“
Capitalism has brought on one hand, an improvement of the human condition, but at the same time reinforced greed, envy and avarice . Our Western culture - influenced by religion - but has different principles and sees avarice is a vice.
The "western world" is so well developed that it would be sufficient that only 15 hours per week is worked and everyone would be still satisfied . You would not get less money. "...The material conditions of the good life already exist, at least in the affluent parts of the world , but that the blind pursuit of growth puts it continually out od reach.“ (Page 13)
The income has risen continuously in recent decades, but the happiness of the people has not kept pace. The rich have become even richer. "in the 1970 the pay of a top American CEO was under 30 times that of the average worker; today it is 263 times." (Page 30)
The authors confront questions such as "What is wealth for? How much money do we need to lead a good life?" (Page 5)
The authors are not compliant with the classic environmentalists to make the growth responsible for climate change. They even think that "It might rather require us to persevere with growth, so as to finance the technologies needed to mitigate ist consequences.“ (Page 124)
It is in this book not only criticized but also delivered approaches. 

(Hinterbrühl , 29.03.2014)
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keywords = {gutes Leben, Kapitalismus},
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