The Idler (Issue 36) Money Madness: Your Money or Your Life? - Brossura

Hodgkinson, Tom

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9780091905132: The Idler (Issue 36) Money Madness: Your Money or Your Life?

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ISBN 10: 0091905133 ISBN 13: 9780091905132

Casa editrice: Ebury Press, 2005

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The Idler team believe that idleness is unjustly criticised in modern society when it is, in fact, a vital component of a happy life. In this new edition of The Idler, the team examine the way money and greed have taken over our lives and look at ways of escaping its clutches.

In Medieval times, prioritising money-making was seen as a sin. On their deathbed, usurers tried to pay back the money they had extorted so they would have a better chance of getting into heaven. Money was just a part of life, a means of exchange, rather than an end in itself. Then came the Protestant work ethic, which introduced the damaging notion that "time is money".

The Idler wants to reintroduce a fun-loving medieval attitude to life. The last issue looked at how to avoid work; now it looks at how to avoid consuming. You can also expect The Idler's characteristic blend of well-known writers, humour and art.

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Recensione:

"Britain's coolest magazine" (Alex James, Blur)

"Uniquely engaging... devoted to idleness in all its forms... surprisingly energetic in its sagacious coverage of trends and trendiness... packed with ideas" (Time Out)

"The thinking person's Loaded" (Select)

"Full of good things... genuinely radical, irreverent and iconoclastic" (the Rt Hon Alan Clark)

"I'd read it even if I didn't write for it" (Louis Theroux)

Descrizione del libro:

The Magazine For Those Who Love To Loaf

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