What’s the economy for anyway?

 

An excerpt of a book “What’s the economy for, Anyway"” was published in The Bloomberg’s Businessweek and sent to me by a friend:

www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-07/americans-work-too-much-for-their-own-good-de-graaf-and-batker.html

It is a very good article that asks a lot of fundamental questions.  Below is a listing of books and other material that is referenced from this article.  Also included are works by Josef Pieper, a philosopher that explores the value of leisure.