Simple Living In A Complex World

Author : Richard Allen EPSTEIN
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674036565
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simple Rules for a Complex World written by Richard Allen EPSTEIN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too many laws, too many lawyers--that's the necessary consequence of a complex society, or so conventional wisdom has it. Countless pundits insist that any call for legal simplification smacks of nostalgia, sentimentality, or naivete. But the conventional view, the noted legal scholar Richard Epstein tells us, has it exactly backward. The richer texture of modern society allows for more individual freedom and choice. And it allows us to organize a comprehensive legal order capable of meeting the technological and social challenges of today on the basis of just six core principles. In this book, Epstein demonstrates how. The first four rules, which regulate human interactions in ordinary social life, concern the autonomy of the individual, property, contract, and tort. Taken together these rules establish and protect consistent entitlements over all resources, both human and natural. These rules are backstopped by two more rules that permit forced exchanges on payment of just compensation when private or public necessity so dictates. Epstein then uses these six building blocks to clarify many intractable problems in the modern legal landscape. His discussion of employment contracts explains the hidden virtues of contracts at will and exposes the crippling weaknesses of laws regarding collective bargaining, unjust dismissal, employer discrimination, and comparable worth. And his analysis shows how laws governing liability for products and professional services, corporate transactions, and environmental protection have generated unnecessary social strife and economic dislocation by violating these basic principles. Simple Rules for a Complex World offers a sophisticated agenda for comprehensive social reform that undoes much of the mischief of the modern regulatory state. At a time when most Americans have come to distrust and fear government at all levels, Epstein shows how a consistent application of economic and political theory allows us to steer a middle path between too much and too little.

Author : Billy Johnson
Publisher : Pleasant Word
ISBN 13 : 9781414111902
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simple Living written by Billy Johnson and published by Pleasant Word. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short read using funny anecdotes from country life to illustrate the possibility of living the simple life. A must read for anybody who feels like life is being lived in fast forward mode rather than play mode.

Author : Donald Sull
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544409906
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simple Rules written by Donald Sull and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines an approach to high-performance problem-solving and decision-making that draws on insights from survival guides, pop culture and other sources. Co-written by the award-winning author of The Upside of Turbulence. 75,000 first printing.

Author : Linda Breen Pierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967206714
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choosing Simplicity written by Linda Breen Pierce and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground breaking work goes beyond the books that tell you how to simplify your life. This book reveals what has happened in the lives of real people who have done it. Based on the author's three-year study of over 200 people from 40 states and eight countries, Choosing Simplicity is a delightful and rich blend of real-life profiles and guidelines on simplicity. Interwoven throughout the stories are the author's insights and guidance for those who want to explore simplicity and those who have already embarked on this journey. The book also includes a 16-page Resource Guide with reviews of 42 books on simplicity, information on related web sites, organizations, simplicity study circles, workshops, newsletters and magazines.

Author : Tilden Edwards
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809138173
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Simply Through the Day written by Tilden Edwards and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemplative understanding and practice for persons wanting to live more simply in God's presence amidst the complexities of their lives.

Author : Marcus Crown Grodi
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681496828
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life from Our Land written by Marcus Crown Grodi and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from every direction beckon us, even push us, toward better and faster technology, with the promise of more wealth, more pleasure, and, consequently, more happiness. But have we become so bewitched by the siren song of material progress that we've lost the ability not just to achieve, but to discern what true happiness is? What criteria do we use to plan for the future, for retirement? At the end of our earthly lives, how will we measure our fruitfulness? In this book Marcus Grodi discusses what he and his family discovered, mostly by surprise, after moving from the city to twenty-five acres of Ohio farmland. This move involved a radical shift in priorities for all of them, but mostly it helped them to discover some critical truths about our relationship to nature and to nature's Creator that apply regardless of where a person lives. He offers wonderful reflections on his going-back-to-the-land experience as a metaphor for drawing closer to God.

Author : Alain Berthoz
Publisher : Odile Jacob
ISBN 13 : 2738147453
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simplexity written by Alain Berthoz and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Simplexity, as I understand it, is the range of solutions living organisms have found, despite the complexity of natural processes, to enable the brain to prepare an action and plan for the consequences of it. These solutions are simplifying principles that enable the processing of information or situations, by taking into account past experience and anticipating the future. They are neither caricatures, shortcuts, or summaries. They are new ways of asking questions, sometimes at the cost of occasional detours, in order to achieve faster, more elegant, more effective actions.” A. B. As Alain Berthoz demonstrates in this profoundly original book, simplicity is never easy; it requires suppressing, selecting, connecting, thinking, in order to then act in the best way possible. And what if we, in turn, are inspired by the living world to process the complexity that surrounds us? Alain Berthoz is professor at the Collège de France where he is co-director of the Laboratoire de physiologie de la perception et de l’action. [Laboratory for the physiology of perception and action]. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, and is the author of Le Sens du mouvement [The Brain's Sense of Movement] and La Décision [Emotion and Reason].

Author : David Irvine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simple Living in a Complex World written by David Irvine and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jérôme Brillaud
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789142652
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Philosophy of Simple Living written by Jérôme Brillaud and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, “simple living” is a rallying cry for anti-consumerists, environmentalists, and anyone concerned with humanity’s effect on the planet. But what is so revolutionary about a simple life? And why are we so fascinated with simplicity today? A Philosophy of Simple Living charts the ideas, motivations, and practices of simplicity from antiquity to the present day. Bringing together an array of people, practices, and movements, from Henry David Thoreau to Steve Jobs, and from Cynics and Shakers to the “slow movement,” voluntary simplicity, and degrowth, this book is as comprehensive as it is concise. Written in elegant, spare prose, A Philosophy of Simple Living will be of great benefit to all who wish to declutter and pare back their complicated, modern lives.

Author : Glen J. Carrio
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780981936512
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Simple Man Living in a Complex World written by Glen J. Carrio and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Simple Man Living in a Complex World is an enlightening, inspiring look at American business and the sometimes unlikely path to success. Told as a humorous and entertaining autobiography, Carrio conveys his principles of lean thinking, innovation, and cellular manufacturing that are key to winning. He relates how as a creative kid with dyslexia he was frustrated with formal education, escaping the system after high school with his critical thinking and sense of adventure intact. An odd assortment of characters become his accidental mentors, expanding his natural skills of invention, problem solving, and mechanics. He creates a successful manufacturing company from the ground up based on simplicity, efficiency, and fairness. Aspiring entrepreneurs and independent-thinking business owners will appreciate the lessons lurking in the outrageous campfire stories from the business asylum. This is a wild tale of go-kart racing, squirrels, and machining that will change the way you work.