Economies Of Praise

Author : Ryan Netzley
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810146711
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economies of Praise written by Ryan Netzley and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reevaluates early modern poems of praise as, paradoxically, challenging an artistic economy that values exchange and productivity Early modern poems of praise typically insist that they do not have a purpose or enact real labor beyond their effortless listing of laudable qualities. And yet the poets discussed in this study, including Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, Anne Bradstreet, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton, hint at an alternative aesthetic economy at work in their verse. Poetic praise, it turns out, might show us a social world outside the organizing principle of exchange. In Economies of Praise: Value, Labor, and Form in Seventeenth‐Century English Poetry, Ryan Netzley explores how poems of praise imagine alternatives to market and gift economies and point instead to a self-contained aesthetic economy that works against a more expansive and productivist understanding of literary art. By depicting exchange as inconsequential, unproductive, and redundant rather than a necessary constituent of social order, these poems model for modern readers a world without the imperative to create, appraise, and repeatedly demonstrate one’s own value.

Author : Michael Rhodes
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493412809
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practicing the King's Economy written by Michael Rhodes and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church in the West is rediscovering the fact that God cares deeply for the poor. More and more, churches and individual Christians are looking for ways to practice economic discipleship, but it's hard to make progress when we are blind to our own entanglement in our culture's idolatrous economic beliefs and practices. Practicing the King's Economy cuts through much confusion and invites Christians to take their place within the biblical story of the "King Jesus Economy." Through eye-opening true stories of economic discipleship in action, and with a solid exploration of six key biblical themes, the authors offer practical ways for God's people to earn, invest, spend, compensate, save, share, and give in ways that embody God's love and provision for the world. Foreword by Christopher J. H. Wright.

Author : Tyler COWEN
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674029933
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Commercial Culture written by Tyler COWEN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does a market economy encourage or discourage music, literature, and the visual arts? Do economic forces of supply and demand help or harm the pursuit of creativity? This book seeks to redress the current intellectual and popular balance and to encourage a more favorable attitude toward the commercialization of culture that we associate with modernity. Economist Tyler Cowen argues that the capitalist market economy is a vital but underappreciated institutional framework for supporting a plurality of co-existing artistic visions, providing a steady stream of new and satisfying creations, supporting both high and low culture, helping consumers and artists refine their tastes, and paying homage to the past by capturing, reproducing, and disseminating it. Contemporary culture, Cowen argues, is flourishing in its various manifestations, including the visual arts, literature, music, architecture, and the cinema. Successful high culture usually comes out of a healthy and prosperous popular culture. Shakespeare and Mozart were highly popular in their own time. Beethoven's later, less accessible music was made possible in part by his early popularity. Today, consumer demand ensures that archival blues recordings, a wide array of past and current symphonies, and this week's Top 40 hit sit side by side in the music megastore. High and low culture indeed complement each other. Cowen's philosophy of cultural optimism stands in opposition to the many varieties of cultural pessimism found among conservatives, neo-conservatives, the Frankfurt School, and some versions of the political correctness and multiculturalist movements, as well as historical figures, including Rousseau and Plato. He shows that even when contemporary culture is thriving, it appears degenerate, as evidenced by the widespread acceptance of pessimism. He ends by considering the reasons why cultural pessimism has such a powerful hold on intellectuals and opinion-makers.

Author : Eamonn Fingleton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395899687
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Hard Industries written by Eamonn Fingleton and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Praise of Hard Industries offers an authoritative and deeply disturbing counterargument to the many unexamined assumptions and glibly misstated facts that are driving our embrace of postindustrialism."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jonathan Gruber
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541762509
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jump-Starting America written by Jonathan Gruber and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen—and how we can do it again. The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite different. Job opportunities and economic growth are increasingly concentrated in a few crowded coastal enclaves. Corporations and investors are disproportionately developing technologies that benefit the wealthiest Americans in the most prosperous areas -- and destroying middle class jobs elsewhere. To turn this tide, we must look to a brilliant and all-but-forgotten American success story and embark on a plan that will create the industries of the future -- and the jobs that go with them. Beginning in 1940, massive public investment generated breakthroughs in science and technology that first helped win WWII and then created the most successful economy the world has ever seen. Private enterprise then built on these breakthroughs to create new industries -- such as radar, jet engines, digital computers, mobile telecommunications, life-saving medicines, and the internet-- that became the catalyst for broader economic growth that generated millions of good jobs. We lifted almost all boats, not just the yachts. Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson tell the story of this first American growth engine and provide the blueprint for a second. It's a visionary, pragmatic, sure-to-be controversial plan that will lead to job growth and a new American economy in places now left behind.

Author : Ryan Netzley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780810146723
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economies of Praise written by Ryan Netzley and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ryan Netzley explores how poems of praise imagine alternatives to market and gift economies, pointing to a self-contained aesthetic economy that works against a more expansive and productivist understanding of literary art"--

Author : Edward Yardeni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948025140
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Profits! written by Edward Yardeni and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been much confusion about corporate profits. As a result, there has been lots of sloppy analysis and misinformed discussion of such important issues as the central role of profits in economic growth, the trend of profits, the corporate tax rate, the profit margin, profits' share of national income, and corporate share buybacks.The confusion has played into the hands of progressives, who claim that the profit motive results in income and wealth inequality. As I will show in this study, their narrative of the relationship between profits and prosperity is wrong and misleadingly pessimistic. Market-driven profit is the source of widespread prosperity, not its nemesis.

Author : Michael O'Leary
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062976559
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accountable written by Michael O'Leary and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “More than ever before, this is the book our economy needs.” – Dr. Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation “Unwilling to settle for easy answers or superficial changes, O’Leary and Valdmanis push us all to ask more of our economic system.” – Senator Michael F. Bennet This provocative book takes us inside the fight to save capitalism from itself. Corporations are broken, reflecting no purpose deeper than profit. But the tools we are relying on to fix them—corporate social responsibility, divestment, impact investing, and government control—risk making our problems worse. With lively storytelling and careful analysis, O’Leary and Valdmanis cut through the tired dogma of current economic thinking to reveal a hopeful truth: If we can make our corporations accountable to a deeper purpose, we can make capitalism both prosperous and good. What happens when the sustainability-driven CEO of Unilever takes on the efficiency-obsessed Warren Buffett? Does Kellogg’s—a company founded to serve a healthy breakfast—have a sacred duty to sell sugary cereal if that’s what maximizes profit? For decades, government has tried to curb CEO pay but failed. Why? Can Harvard students force the university to divest from oil and gas? Does it even matter if they do? O’Leary and Valdmanis, two iconoclastic investors, take us on a fast-paced insider’s journey that will change the way we look at corporations. Likely to spark controversy among cynics and dreamers alike, this book is essential reading for anyone with a stake in reforming capitalism—which means all of us.

Author : Leslie Kurke
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1939926009
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Traffic in Praise written by Leslie Kurke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint, 2013, with minor corrections, of the edition published in 1991. The corrections constitute revisions of the translations of some of the Greek text; but these do not substantially change the argument of the book.

Author : Daily Praise Journal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781694841902
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Praise the Lord! written by Daily Praise Journal and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-22 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise the Lord!: Document Your Daily Praise to God - Large Print Edition Learn How to Begin the Practice of Praising God Every Day: Praise is positive by its very nature so become a positive person through praising the Lord. (After all, you cannot gripe and praise at the same time!) Use this blank-lined journal format to document your praise journey by writing down new insights about praising the Lord. Learn to Avoid this Unfortunate Substitute for Praising God: Throughout the Bible we are urged to Praise God. Yet in many Christian circles, people will say "Praise the Lord!" yet no one actually does. In fact, it seems that phrase urging people to praise God has become a substitute for actually doing so! Determine that whenever you hear someone say "Praise the Lord!", actually doing so, giving praise as to Who God Is in your life! Learn How to Establish the Priority of Praising God: Praise is ascribing worth to God above everything else in your life. To give praise to God is much more than a verbal declaration. Focus on the attributes of God whenever you worship, sing, pray, or share your faith, because praise flows from within, revealing your personal relationship to God through Christ. Learn How Praising the Lord Helps You Become a Positive Witness of God's Grace: Journaling your Praise Daily will transform your Christian life as you become a positive person of praise! Document How Witnessing Opportunities were the result of Your Positive Praise.