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A review by chefcookeruns
How Much Is Enough?: Money and the Good Life by Edward Skidelsky, Robert Skidelsky
3.0
A review of 3 stars doesn't quite say how much I feel this book has influenced my thought process. The first chapter is amazing, but after that the book falls into some very dense reading that takes some time to get through. It pays off, but definitely requires a good amount of knowledge to the things the authors are referring to, or else the time to find out. Not being an economist or historian, this took me some amount of time.
The pay off is a deeper understanding about why they list the factors that they do as part of the good life in greater depth. And an ability to internalize it a bit more than if it were simply presented as their opinion, rather than how it is presented, which is their well researched opinion (a better option I think).
The last chapter is a start at application in a broader sense, but lacks the kind of closure I was hoping for from how they start the chapter off.
Overall though, I do recommend it as a means to rethink the goals of life, and provide a framework that does not place growth/wealth as the central theme.
The pay off is a deeper understanding about why they list the factors that they do as part of the good life in greater depth. And an ability to internalize it a bit more than if it were simply presented as their opinion, rather than how it is presented, which is their well researched opinion (a better option I think).
The last chapter is a start at application in a broader sense, but lacks the kind of closure I was hoping for from how they start the chapter off.
Overall though, I do recommend it as a means to rethink the goals of life, and provide a framework that does not place growth/wealth as the central theme.