Before arriving in the promised land, one must first cross a dry desert. He deserves respect for criticizing an economy whose flagbearer he is the force of all his fields of activity. Sedlacek provides literary-theoretic interpretations of these works through the lens of economics. He suggest to change some of our habits egoism, to achieve fame and profit, to rethink our understanding of economy so that we can be open for some alternatives to our consumer society and its harmful sides. To demonstrate his viewpoints, he touches on a range of persons or topics history to present popular ranging from Adam Smith, Gilgamesh, and the Old Testament to The Matrix and Fight Club. Named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review , he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing has achieved bestseller status. 
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Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have.
Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street
My full review is at http: The author elegantly touches on the morals and ethics of making money in different historical eras and how it influenced the modern economic thinking. I bought this book when I visited Austria earlier last year, and enjoyed the read during the holidays. At times the result is florid to the point of ebooo unintelligibly.
Adam Smith, of course. The second half of the book is somewhat better, and describes problems common to all of the social sciences although Economics seems to be unique in the A weird and kind of flaky book with occasional interesting parts. Contrary, in the capital there is much broader set of education institutions, including technical ones preferred by boys, and share of girls is naturally lower. No trivia or quizzes yet.
It is sure, for example, that he has an ulterior motive and is not laying his cards on the table openly, but at the same time he says much that can be dobrq and enjoyed even if I cannot find him to be a very trustworthy writer. After all, it is still about economic proportionality. Especially philosophical and historical facts about the relationship of Christianity with economy and the viewpoint of some personalities. The Economics of Good and Zlx was first published in Czech original as Ekonomie dobra a zla in May and quickly became a national phenomenon.
As well I agree that economics cannot be limited to a set of numbers and you need a deep knowledge of a broad range of concepts from lots of different areas of science.
Aug 21, Barry Linetsky rated it liked it. It's a relatively light, philosophical, and easy read with a good intro by Vaclavwhich hence makes it a good holiday read.
Tomas Sedlacek - Economics of Good and Evil
Read more from this extract of the book, "Gilgamesh p. It discusses current messy state of the world economy but it doesn't offer any solutions. The first part of the book even details some complimentary themes with Russell I originally picked this up as a read about economics duhbut it was rather an analysis of philosophy and theology, with those subjects as context in the current and historic field of economics today.
Thus it will be very challenging to think about the question why an omniscient God had not known that Adam and Eve would eat the apple from the Eknoomie of Knowledge and compare this event to Prometheus bringing the fire to men. Sometimes the interpretation of something economically important matters a bit far-fetched. If you went through whole university process multiply the figure by hundreds.
The author meandered a bit but in the end I was left full and satisfied. In If you want a short textbook on philosophy, this is for you.
Even in this oldest work known to men, however, questions we today consider to be economic play an important role — and if we want to set out on a trail of economic questioning, we can go no deeper into history than this Can we do ethically all that we can do technically? In recent decades, our debt has risen not out of shortage, but of surplus, excessiveness. I found this the most interesting book I've read for a long time. Sedlacek provides literary I heard Sedlacek had problems to submit his PhD thesis which he then published reworked in a book form.
Obviously, that second half of the equation has been totally ignored by modern national economies, as we in the West continue to spend ourselves into oblivion. Mar 29, Suhrob rated it it was ok.
To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Sedlacek provides literary-theoretic interpretations of these works through the lens of economics. Jan 20, Lars Sanders rated it really liked it.
The references are heavily laced with Czech sources, often obscure.
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