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“Live life to the fullest!”, as the old saying has it. Live, despite constant problems that need to be solved and challenges we are faced with. Anyway, what would life be worth if it weren’t for the satisfaction we get at overcoming the difficulties and contentment with one’s ability to face up to challenges? Naturally, there would be more of this satisfaction, if life spared us some problems, but that’s the way things are: you can’t expect only the good times.
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Humphrey Hawksley, Democracy Kills: What’s So Good About the Vote? (London: Macmillan, 2009).
Morton H. Helperin, Joseph T. Siegle and Michael M. Weinstein, The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace (New York: Routledge, 2005).
See, inter alia, Stuart P. Green, Lying, Cheating, and Stealing: A Moral Theory of White-Collar Crime (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
and Clyde Prestowitz, The Betrayal of American Prosperity: Free Market Delusions, America’s Decline, and How We Must Compete in the Post-Dollar Era (New York: Free Press, 2010).
Frederick Engels, Anti-Dühring. Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1947).
David Rothkopf, Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008).
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Kolodko, G.W. (2014). Economy Without Values is Like Life Without Sense. In: Whither the World: The Political Economy of the Future. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465740_6
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