Peace in Our Hearts, Peace in the World: Meditations of Hope and Healing
Author: Ruth Fishel
Peace begins with us! When the world is at its most threatening and uncertainty reigns, it comforts us to know that mindful living is still within our grasp. Peace in Our Hearts, Peace in the World helps us come to a full and deep understanding of our own thoughts, actions, limitations, and strengths—and the effect they have on the world at large. Ruth Fishel serves as our wonderfully effective guide through this year-long journey of introspection, reflection, and resolution. Her daily encouragement to appreciate the most basic things in life—waking up, brushing our teeth, the breaths we take—alternate with thoughts on relationships, choice, and personal responsibility. A thought-provoking quote accompanies each meditation: Fishel draws these wise words from sources old and new, ranging from Buddhism to new spiritual writings by Eckhart Tolle, Christina Feldman, and Deepak Chopra.
Small enough to travel with, and beautifully designed, this book makes inspirational reading available anytime, anywhere. Readers will find its comforting presence a constant reminder of the maxim that drives this motivational collection: if there is peace in our hearts, there may indeed one day be peace in the world.
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World of Wealth: How Capitalism Turns Profits into Progress
Author: Thomas G Donlan
“Thomas Donlan’s defense of free market capitalism is especially timely today given all the pressures to regulate and stifle it. The anti-globalization movement wants more trade protectionism and less immigration. The global credit crisis is putting pressure on governments to bail out irresponsible lenders and borrowers at taxpayers’ expense. Instead, Donlan convincingly and clearly explains why we would all prosper more by doing all we can to make markets freer.”
—Ed Yardeni, President, Yardeni Research, Inc.
“Thomas Donlan reminds us all that capitalism is not simply one choice among different and equally valid economic systems, but instead that hard work and the accumulation of wealth is the natural tendency of successful people and healthy societies around the world.”
—Christopher Whalen, Managing Director, Institutional Risk Analytics
“It has been several decades since Joseph Schumpeter observed that the philosophical defense of a free-market economy must never cease. Thomas Donlan has taken up that challenge, but this clear-eyed book is much more than a defense. It is a magnificently constructed explanation of how the world works and why free-market capitalism continues to offer the greatest hope for solving our greatest challenges.”
—Carl J. Schramm, Ph.D., President, Kauffman Foundation
“The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and an undisguised repugnance for the mumbo-jumbo that’s the curse of so much commentary on anything to do with economics orinvestment. A World of Wealth is not only a lively read, but an exceptionally enlightening and rewarding one to boot.”
—Alan Abelson, Barron’s Columnist
“With the facts of a primer laid out in the fast-paced narrative of a storyteller, Thomas Donlan’s A World of Wealth lucidly explains today’s marketplace. From the credit crisis to immigration and from oil prices to global warming, the book guides the reader through the economic issues of our day—jargon-free. It’s a fast, fun read that illuminates while it entertains.”
—Thomas W. Hazlett, Professor of Law & Economics, George Mason University
“An indispensable—and highly readable—primer on how the economic world really works, whether politicians of both left and right want it to work that way or not. If it were required reading for all political reporters, they might do a lot more reporting and carry a lot less water in the process.”
—John Steele Gordon, Author of Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power
Acknowledgments xii
About the Author xiii
Introduction xv
Chapter 1: The Capitalist Answer to the “Energy Crisis”: Pay Higher Prices 1
Chapter 2: The Capitalist Approach to Environmental Pollution and Global Warming: Breathe Easy 23
Chapter 3: A Capitalist Prescription for Trade: Free Exchange Enriches Both Sides of Every Deal 43
Chapter 4: Capitalist Immigration Policy: Tear Down the Walls 65
Chapter 5: The Essential Elements of Capitalism: Investment and Invention 81
Chapter 6: The Capitalist Take on Taxes: Keep Taxes Low and Equal 93
Chapter 7: The Capitalist Struggle against Low Finance: Price Controls and Regulation Endanger the Free Market 113
Chapter 8: A Capitalist Diagnosis for the High Cost of Health Care: Pay What It’s Worth 131
Chapter 9: The Capitalist Approach to Retirement Security: It’s an Individual's Duty First 149
Chapter 10: A Capitalist Look at the Current Economy 169
Chapter 11: The Capitalist Quest for Productivity 185
Reading Further 201
Index 205
Publishers Weekly
According to business columnist Donlan, "the free market always works." His analysis of major issues in modern economics and current affairs is devoted to lavish illustrations and reiterations of this point. Donlan's scope is as broad as his bias is narrow; he considers environmental pollution, global warming, immigration, investment, taxes, price controls, health care, retirement and debt-for each issue's ills, he prescribes the panacea of the free market. The book's sections on American economic history are clearly and cogently presented; still, the author's refusal to engage with theories outside of the strict capitalist equation frustrates. Donlan's restricted perspective has the unfortunate effect of simplifying complex issues, and when describing government initiatives he disapproves of (particularly environmental protection efforts and carbon caps), he resorts to condescending and loaded language. While this book might be useful to a reader looking for a primer on the virtues of the free market as narrated by one of its staunchest champions, those seeking more objectivity and subtler argumentation should look elsewhere. (June)
Correction:The subject of Michael Dobbs's One Minute to Midnight(Reviews, Apr. 21) is the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, not the 1961 Bay of Pigs incident.
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