ISBN: 1425122558

In a way, this book is a "ballad of yesterday, today and tomorrow." And in carrying on with the theme of Vera Brittain's beautiful book, "Testament to Youth," this is also a testament to … More...

In a way, this book is a "ballad of yesterday, today and tomorrow." And in carrying on with the theme of Vera Brittain's beautiful book, "Testament to Youth," this is also a testament to the legacy of love and caring and sharing of those who have gone before; and is a challenge to we who are left to carry on in their quest for a better today and tomorrow. But to win that goal, we must recognize and understand our adversaries. I have tried, in this book (sometimes by example; other times by [invention]) to point out who those adversaries are. But, you know, there is more than a little truth to the sometimes quoted statement, "I have met the enemy and the enemy is me." Take economics, for example. It is really little more than the study of human behavior in response to perceived wants and needs, and of our actions and interactions to meet defined financial well-being goals-"Cause and effect" pure and simple-but rashness, carelessness, impropriety, selfishness and greed play a big part in upsetting the balance. "Left alone," as in the precepts of "laisse faire," their ugliness has no place to hide. And, without the sustenance of self-serving, non-competitive forces will quickly disappear into oblivion. As I have mentioned earlier in this book: An economy is like a delicate heirloom. Watch: hold it carefully! Don't wind it too tight! It can be easily broken! contemporary,fiction,genre fiction,historical,historical fiction,literature and fiction Historical Fiction, Trafford Publishing<