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The Summer Nights Never End...Until They Do: Life, Liberty, and the Lure of the Short-Run

Robert James Waller

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Description:You may know Robert James Waller as the man who brought the world to Iowa's storied covered bridges. What you may not realize is that before and since becoming an internationally acclaimed novelist, Waller has grappled with a very real puzzle: How can an individual, a group, and/or a society cut through the confusion of everyday life to successfully navigate its pitfalls and traps?Through intense reflection, shrewd reasoning, and not a little trial and error, the reclusive author has developed a unique and inventive paradigm for thinking clearly and logically. In The Summer Nights Never End...Until they Do, Waller shares a methodology that can be applied to everything from governmental gaffs and immigration reform to losing weight and financial freedom.Like so many things that make sense, Waller's words are complex in their simplicity, turn from the madness of short-term, quick fixes and toward time-tested, reasonable goals.The devil is in the details. So, too, are the answers.Table of Contents: Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iPart I: The BlueprintChapter 1 Weight Gain, Infidelity, and Retirement Savings Are the Same . . . . . . . . 1Chapter 2 Love, Money, and the Paths We Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Chapter 3 The Value of the Small Increment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23Chapter 4 Getting Trapped . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Chapter 5 Social Traps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37Chapter 6 Vicious Circles, Beneficent Spirals, and the Power of Feedback . . . . . . 47Chapter 7 Getting Out of Trouble: Conventional Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57Chapter 8 Getting Out of Trouble: Incentives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Chapter 9 Avoiding Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87Chapter 10 A Tsunami Trap: The Case of Public Pension Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111Chapter 11 Democracy and Its Saboteurs (Intentional and Otherwise) . . . . . . . . . 117Part II Matters Personal and GeneralChapter 12 Views of Humans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Chapter 13 Political Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Chapter 14 Miscellaneous Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Part III Loose Ends and RecapitulationChapter 15 Synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Epilogue A n Essay: What the Rivers Taught Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213Appendix Financial Versus Personal Discounting(Optional Reading) . . . . . . . 221References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Summer Nights Never End...Until They Do: Life, Liberty, and the Lure of the Short-Run. To get started finding The Summer Nights Never End...Until They Do: Life, Liberty, and the Lure of the Short-Run, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 223

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: W&A Publishing

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1934354252

Description: You may know Robert James Waller as the man who brought the world to Iowa's storied covered bridges. What you may not realize is that before and since becoming an internationally acclaimed novelist, Waller has grappled with a very real puzzle: How can an individual, a group, and/or a society cut through the confusion of everyday life to successfully navigate its pitfalls and traps?Through intense reflection, shrewd reasoning, and not a little trial and error, the reclusive author has developed a unique and inventive paradigm for thinking clearly and logically. In The Summer Nights Never End...Until they Do, Waller shares a methodology that can be applied to everything from governmental gaffs and immigration reform to losing weight and financial freedom.Like so many things that make sense, Waller's words are complex in their simplicity, turn from the madness of short-term, quick fixes and toward time-tested, reasonable goals.The devil is in the details. So, too, are the answers.Table of Contents: Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iPart I: The BlueprintChapter 1 Weight Gain, Infidelity, and Retirement Savings Are the Same . . . . . . . . 1Chapter 2 Love, Money, and the Paths We Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Chapter 3 The Value of the Small Increment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23Chapter 4 Getting Trapped . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Chapter 5 Social Traps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37Chapter 6 Vicious Circles, Beneficent Spirals, and the Power of Feedback . . . . . . 47Chapter 7 Getting Out of Trouble: Conventional Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57Chapter 8 Getting Out of Trouble: Incentives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Chapter 9 Avoiding Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87Chapter 10 A Tsunami Trap: The Case of Public Pension Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111Chapter 11 Democracy and Its Saboteurs (Intentional and Otherwise) . . . . . . . . . 117Part II Matters Personal and GeneralChapter 12 Views of Humans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Chapter 13 Political Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Chapter 14 Miscellaneous Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Part III Loose Ends and RecapitulationChapter 15 Synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Epilogue A n Essay: What the Rivers Taught Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213Appendix Financial Versus Personal Discounting(Optional Reading) . . . . . . . 221References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Summer Nights Never End...Until They Do: Life, Liberty, and the Lure of the Short-Run. To get started finding The Summer Nights Never End...Until They Do: Life, Liberty, and the Lure of the Short-Run, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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