Adam Smith and the Origins of American Enterprise: How the Founding Fathers Turned to a Great Economist's Writings and Created the American Economy
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Adam Smith, a Scottish Professor of Moral Philosophy, published his classic Wealth of Nations in 1776, the year the American Revolution began. Smith became widely known for his ideas of free markets, laissez-faire capitalism, and the 'invisible hand' of a wealth-creating business society. Yet British politicians and the landed gentry paid little attention and enacted none of Smith's suggested reforms. Smith was read avidly, however, by the Founding Fathers, including Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin. Knowing that unless a sound and prosperous economy could be created in America, the experiment in democracy might fail, and they turned to the ideas of Adam Smith to create and jump-start an economic system for America with both immediate and long-sustained results.

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4 out of 5 stars Straight-forward, center-right review.......2007-07-20

Roy C. Smith offers a readable, straight-forward, right-of-center review of the famous economist, Adam Smith. The book introduces Smith's thoughts in basic detail, and spends a great deal of time putting Smith in the context of the American revolution, which of course is when "The Wealth of Nations" was published, in 1776. At times the history seems to drown-out the thems of Adam Smith's contribution, but by the conclusion the author ties up his thesis that Adam Smith's thought had a pervasive and substantial impact on the Founding Fathers, and upon the way Americans have done busness since then. A good read for introductory or undergraduate readers. Author's focus remains on Smith and American context. Little mention of John Maynard Keynes is made, and no discusion of Marx or socialism as a competing alternative. This did not detract from book, as plenty of other books and articles speak to those subjects.

Testosterone Inc: Tales of CEOs Gone Wild
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Testosterone Inc: Tales of CEOs Gone Wild
Christopher M. Byron
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In Testosterone Inc.: Tales of CEOs Gone Wild, bestselling author and New York Post columnist Chris Byron chronicles the Gatsby-like saga of the rise and fall of the celebrity CEO. During the height of the 1990s bull market, they were America’s new heroes: the heroes of business. They were our bold new leaders, cutting the fat, pushing for productivity, implementing visionary plans, and making strategic deals.

When the bull market turned to bust and the applause turned to cat-calls, the world was shocked at the truth. Drenched in money and public acclaim, our CEO-heroes—mostly white, mostly male, mostly middle-aged—turned out to be not much different than a group of twenty-something rock stars—drunk on power and driven by sex, greed, and glamour.

Testosterone Inc. goes behind the boardroom doors to show the serial affairs and marriages of these acquisitive corporate titans.  At the center of this story is Jack Welch, the biggest of America’s rock star CEOs and the former head of General Electric Co., surrounded by “mini-me” CEOs Ron Perelman of Revlon, Al Dunlap of Sunbeam, and Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco—all gone wild in public displays of consumption and predatory appetites writ large.

Byron gets inside the bars where Welch liked to hang out and pick up women with his early “business soul mate” buddies. Byron hovers unseen at the elbow of Ron Perelman and his mistress aboard the Concorde for a week in Paris in his mistaken belief that his wife knows nothing about his secret affair. Byron peeks behind the curtains of a U.S. Army officers’ quarters to behold Al Dunlap horrifying his first wife, who claimed in her divorce action that Dunlap would point his knife at her and say, “I often wondered what human flesh tasted like.” Byron becomes a fly on the wall to chronicle the longing for respect and serial womanizing of Dennis Kozlowski.

Frequently hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, Testosterone Inc. follows the intertwined lives of these four corporate heroes, from childhood to their ultimate moments of glory and the crash-and-burn calamities that followed, as man’s age-old hunger for power, greed, and temptation undid them all.  From suicide to murder, from dysfunctional childhoods to dysfunctional marriages in adulthood, from business chutzpah to financial suicide, here is the ultimate untold business story of our time: what went on at century’s end, when testosterone got the best of businessmen everywhere, and CEOs went wild.

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In Testosterone Inc.: Tales of CEOs Gone Wild, bestselling author and New York Post columnist Chris Byron chronicles the Gatsby-like saga of the rise and fall of the celebrity CEO. During the height of the 1990s bull market, they were America’s new heroes: the heroes of business. They were our bold new leaders, cutting the fat, pushing for productivity, implementing visionary plans, and making strategic deals.

When the bull market turned to bust and the applause turned to cat-calls, the world was shocked at the truth. Drenched in money and public acclaim, our CEO-heroes—mostly white, mostly male, mostly middle-aged—turned out to be not much different than a group of twenty-something rock stars—drunk on power and driven by sex, greed, and glamour.

Testosterone Inc. goes behind the boardroom doors to show the serial affairs and marriages of these acquisitive corporate titans.  At the center of this story is Jack Welch, the biggest of America’s rock star CEOs and the former head of General Electric Co., surrounded by “mini-me” CEOs Ron Perelman of Revlon, Al Dunlap of Sunbeam, and Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco—all gone wild in public displays of consumption and predatory appetites writ large.

Byron gets inside the bars where Welch liked to hang out and pick up women with his early “business soul mate” buddies. Byron hovers unseen at the elbow of Ron Perelman and his mistress aboard the Concorde for a week in Paris in his mistaken belief that his wife knows nothing about his secret affair. Byron peeks behind the curtains of a U.S. Army officers’ quarters to behold Al Dunlap horrifying his first wife, who claimed in her divorce action that Dunlap would point his knife at her and say, “I often wondered what human flesh tasted like.” Byron becomes a fly on the wall to chronicle the longing for respect and serial womanizing of Dennis Kozlowski.

Frequently hilarious, sometimes h

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Not a business book - - a celebrity gossip rag.......2006-04-20

MY RATING SYSTEM:

* - if you have to chose between torture and reading this book, then you might want to consider reading the book - although it depends on just how severe the torture would be.

** - if you've lost your job and have quite a bit of free time on your hands, and don't have anything else better to do, then you might want to consider reading this book; don't expect to learn much or really be entertained. It will however, help you pass the time until your death.

*** - meh...I'm indifferent. Reading this book will not alter your life in any significant way, yet it is not so horrendously dreadful that your taking the time to read it will be a complete waste of time.

**** - Good book to great book zone here. You should probably read this book if you have some spare time. This book could be interesting, entertaining, or informative.

***** - Outstanding book! Make time to read this book - you'll learn or be entertained or intrigued. The book might even be good enough to provide original or helpful insights into the world that we live in.

REVIEW:

I purchased this book with the expectation that I would read about the questionable business practices of some of the most talked about corporate executives in America. Instead, this book proved to be the "People Weekly" celebrity gossip version of their stories.

When I realized that the book was mainly focused on the personal lifestyles of the executives I considered putting the book away, but I continued to read on expecting that it might improve. Unfortunately, the content remained outside of the scope of what I was hoping for when I purchased the book.

This book should not be in the business section of bookstores.

4 out of 5 stars So Funny You Might Not Be Able To Breath.......2005-12-24

So funny that you might not be able to breath - unless you are one of the many CEO's described in the book! But who can say. Maybe they can laugh at themselves, maybe not.

I am reading a number of books at the moment and just received five new books from Amazon.com including this book. Needless to say, I dropped everything and read this book. It is simply a very funny and enjoyable book 375 pages long, but in large to medium font so you can read it in one or two evenings. Do not be put off or fooled by the book jacket that has an amateurish yellow photo and a girl in a short skirt. This is a well-researched and well-written book.

I read Martha Inc. by the same author Christopher Byron and thought it was a solid well-written book, that rang true, had a lot of research and interviews and was a page turner to read. He is a writer for the New York Post and very skilled as a writer. This book is a bit faster read and a bit lighter, and it jumps around to cover a variety of famous CEO's. I have just finished reading a series of longer books including "Stalin" by Montefiore plus some others and interestingly here Byron uses the same literary techniques as does Montefiore in his large and serious biography of Stalin. What he does is first look at many public sources on the CEO's, then he does interviews (90) to try and piece everything together and give context plus add new information, then he inserts black and white photographs into the book as we proceed, such as photos of Dennis and Karen Kozlowski, Ron Perelman's fourth wife Jack Welch together with Suzy Wetlaufer, etc. It makes it all very entertaining and a compelling light read.

There are many things that stick out in the book and I will not repeat those here, but in one case he compares different versions (hard cover and soft cover) of "Straight From the Gut" by Jack Welch and the author points out how the "soul mate" has changed in the book, and how the credit for Jack's second wife Jane was reduced from some fraction of a chapter in the first hard cover edition to one or two line in the soft cover version a few years later. But the accolades in one book are transferred to a new woman in the second version. It is amazing how one man's biography can quickly and retroactively change!

There are too many stories to repeat here but it is all very entertaining. The men come of as out of control classless fools, but in some cases they are aided and abetted by some wily or equally foolish women.

I am giving it 4 stars because of the humorous nature of the book, and light read. Strongly recommend and very funny.

2 out of 5 stars Flesh and the Mammon.......2004-09-02

C. Byron depicts the 4 main characters in this book (business managers J. Welsh, D. Kozlowski, A. Dunlap and R. Perelman) as angry self-servers and tenacious wive-dumpers with babe-magnet fantasies.
Their main common feature is frustration, with parents, jobs, pay and spouse ... even after they reached the top. It was (is) never enough.
Out of this frustration grew their aggression and immense drive for power and dominance, their savage cost-cutting and childish jealousies, which were fatal even for their most loyal collaborators.
For J. Welsh, company loyalty was a weakness and pure hypocrisy.
Unless you consider these people as the most brilliant specimen of the homo sapiens species (they are all falling from their horse in this book), this is an unimportant book about uninteresting people (I agree, not for their employees who were fired).
This book has its bouts of gags and vitriolic comments, but also some unnecessary outburst, dragging in e.g. Bill Clinton's escapades.
All in all, an extended somewhat better gossip column.

1 out of 5 stars Nice angle, terrible book...........2004-07-20

Hoping to gain some insight into the behavior of Corporate Exec gone bad, I picked up this book........

MISTAKE!

This book is the National Enquirer of books. Ridiculous pop psychology that would make a first-year psych. student howl with laughter (It was the testosterone! No. Wait. It was because his mother called him a punk!)

The footnote system is insane. Memo to Mr. Bryon: the use of metaphors (such as Lillith) typically do require footnotes to explain them.

Conclusions and assumptions made by others are pushed aside to give more room to Mr. Byron's equally fallacious assumptions and illogical conclusions.

Poorly written. Poorly edited.

All this, plus, Mr. Byron sets the men's movement back 20 years with his male-bashing biological reductionism and stereotyping.

Too bad. An insightful book on this topic is sorely needed. Anyone know of one?

1 out of 5 stars hidden envy fuels the pen.......2004-07-17

Christopher Byron is a barely-contained little nut of rage whose transparent drive to make fun of or denigrate the powerful, seems his way of touching the hem of powerful, successful people. He appears to be in great need to vent his envy and impotence. Worthless read.

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                            1 out of 5 stars Very Muddled, Partial Overview.......2007-04-17

                            The list of issues regarding quantum mechanics is of great use. However this is one of the worst books ever written for presenting clear explanations of those issues. Since it is written for no other purpose than to grind an ax it presents a rather skewed point of view and uses the explanations of such issues as Bell Theorem, the two-slit experiment and Schrodingers Cat, to ignore inconvenient arguments and to muddle the discourse. Primarily Wick wants to discredit Bohr by stating that both he and his followers did not understand their own arguments in the debate with the naive realists as represented by Einstein. This is devolves into a mere matter of censoring the discourse by presenting only one side and is of little interest in the actual debate. This trick very neatly allows him to even present opposing views that are actually germane. He also attempts to discredit the Copenhagen interpretation by assigning it a metaphysical status and then attempts to replace it with metaphysical arguments that favor realism by such ideas as the not much lamented pilot wave. He rather glibly denies credibility to the many-worlds theory, another bit of metaphysics on the par with concept of Jehova. How he picks and chooses his metaphysical explanations to replace other metaphysical explanations is entirely a metaphysical mystery. He gives very short shift to possible counter arguments, especially the most persuasive issues such as Godels Theorem. The value of the entire book rests solely on its list of issues, but at no point does it rise above propaganda, statement by fiat and censorship into the arena of actual discourse. As such, any real use of the book strictly depends on how critical an eye it is read with. It is entirely up to the capability of the reader to supply the missing elements of the issues in question, to supply better or more clear explanations, and to supply a more balanced view.

                            5 out of 5 stars Great book.......2001-12-16

                            This lucid book is one of the first that really ridiculizes all the paranoid proponents of the various interpretentional dogma that infest and plague quantum mechanics. Bravo, David!

                            5 out of 5 stars Excellent historical review, redressing the balance..........2000-10-23

                            A detailed historical analysis of the Einstein-Bohr debate covering all the contemporary and subsequent contributors and concentrating mainly on the EPR controversy, Bell's theorem and the experimental tests to date. Convincingly overturns the still prevailing myth that Bohr 'won' the argument by refuting Einstein's scepticism. This falsehood was propagated by Bohr's numerous and overenthusiastic disciples and unfortunately has been perpetuated ever since in virtually all the standard QM textbooks. In fact, as Wick's extensive quotations and commentary show, it was Einstein's arguments that were presented with great clarity and rigour, whereas Bohr was unable to confront them directly and invariably relied on metaphysical and psychological waffle to cloud the issue. It is quite clear from the numerous extracts from Bohr's responses that not only could none of his contemporaries understand what he was talking about but that he didn't either! One weakness is Wick's rather confusing explanation of the probabilities involved in Bell's theorem which have been much better presented elsewhere (eg. in Mermin's book or in Penrose - 'The Emperor's New Mind'), but this is more than compensated by the excellent lengthy appendix by William Faris that gives the clearest analysis of Bell's theorem I have seen so far.

                            5 out of 5 stars Creative-Inventive Physics.......2000-02-08

                            David Wick's book is the best book that I have seen on jargon in quantum physics, and I have been publishing and lecturing on the topic for quite a while. He shows step by step how some of the greatest abstract geniuses including Heisenberg and Bohr but also most of the quantum mainstream geniuses get carried away by their own importance and talent into coining and believing gibberish and jargon including complementarity. I might add that the statistics establishment, both in physics and mathematics, especially the Bayesians, are generally about as bad. These geniuses will not even publish any ideas not using their exact jargon and current fads. An advanced civilization would probably have an inventors-creative department to remedy this, but try telling this either to government or corporations!

                            4 out of 5 stars A great exposition of the quantum controversy.......1998-09-06

                            This book is by far the best layman's description I have read of the controversy surrounding Quantum Physics. After honestly stating his own position in the debate (against the Copenhagen Orthodoxy), Wick introduces the main points of the controversy by describing how the theory was developed and the scientific and phylosophical backgrounds of its creators. Good descriptions of issues such as complementarity, the uncertainty principle, the measurement problem, and the problem of properties make this book particularly informative. Specially interesting is Wick's description of the line of debate started by the EPR experiment, continued by such great scientists as Bohm and Bell, and not yet completed. The only thing that I miss is a good discussion of the supperposition principle.

                            Wick's book is written very clearly, and while it does not require previous knowledge of the subject, it is full of strictly scientific information. You will not find here any pseudoscientific speculations on paranormal phenomena nor religion, which are so common in other popular books on the subject. On the other hand, the science and its interpretations are very well illustrated by clear descriptions and historical anecdotes which make the book a relatively easy read.

                            After reading about this subject from books as diverse as Popper's "Quantum Theory and the schism in physics" and Gribbin's "In search of Schrodinger's Cat", I was very impressed with Wick's ability to produce this engaging, accurate and though-provoking portrait of the longstanding discussion on quantum theory and its relation to how reality might be.

                            Burning Daylight
                            Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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                            • What a good woman can do to a bad man.
                            Burning Daylight
                            Jack London
                            Manufacturer: Hard Press
                            ProductGroup: Book
                            Binding: Paperback
                            ASIN: 1406942456
                            Release Date: 2006-11-03

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                            An action-filled story of the Yukon Territory in 1893, the surging novel of the men who gambled their lives and opened the vast Canadian North in their lust for gold, Burning Daylight was Jack London's best selling book during his lifetime. It was filmed as a First National movie starring Milton Sills with Doris Kenyon

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                            In no blaze of glory did Burning Daylight descend upon San Francisco. Not only had he been forgotten, but the Klondike along with him. The world was interested in other things, and the Alaskan adventure, like the Spanish War, was an old story. Many things had happened since then. Exciting things were happening every day, and the sensation-space of newspapers was limited.

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                            4 out of 5 stars great daylight.......2003-04-25

                            burning daylight is a man of the wild, with a great sense of grandeur. when he does something, he wants to do it in a grand fashion. but he wants more. he wants to be part of a greater game, join an inner circle. a very interesting life story, but dwells at times. one of his best.

                            4 out of 5 stars What a good woman can do to a bad man........2000-02-20

                            "Burning Daylight" was Jack London's best selling book during his lifetime, yet amazingly since his death, the book has been totally neglected except for an occassional reprint, and currently it is again out of print. The book begins as a two-fisted macho adventure on the Klondike, as the hero --nicknamed Burning Daylight -- becomes the most successful entrepreneur during the Alaskan Gold Rush. However, after acheiving his fame and fortune, he finds no more challenge in the north and heads to the States for new worlds to conquer. But, first he is flim-flammed out of his fortune by Wall Streeters. However, he learns the lesson of dog-eat-dog and becomes as much of a scoundrel as those who robbed him. He ventures to California and envisons the future success of Oakland, buys property, sets up utilities and public transportation systems through overbearing and shady tactics. He begins to drink, starts to go soft in the belly, loses his good looks and vitality. And then, for the first time, he falls in love. The last third of the book charmingly relates how a good woman turns a now bad man around. It is a love story. A rousing adventure. A trieste on the ills of big business. All superbly written by Jack London. It's easy to see why this book was so popular in London's day. If you can find it, read it. It will be time well spent.
                            BURNING DAYLIGHT
                            Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                            • Burning Daylight?
                            BURNING DAYLIGHT
                            Jack London
                            Manufacturer: Macmillan co.
                            ProductGroup: Book
                            Binding: Hardcover
                            ASIN: B000EHLZJ4

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                            5 out of 5 stars Burning Daylight?.......2007-07-20

                            Take life by the hand and live it! Jack London's book Burning Daylight is a delightful character study of a man who embraces life but has to learn that some restraint is nescessary to live a balanced life. This book is an
                            enjoyable and engaging read. I highly recommend it.
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                              Burning Daylight

                              Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
                              ProductGroup: Book
                              Binding: Hardcover
                              ASIN: B000EANRTM
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                                Burning Daylight
                                Jack London
                                Manufacturer: Manor Books
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                                  Burning Daylight
                                  Jack London
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                                    Burning Daylight
                                    Jack London
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                                      Burning Daylight
                                      Jack London
                                      Manufacturer: William Heinemann Ltd
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                                        Burning Daylight
                                        Jack London
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                                          Burning Daylight
                                          Jack London
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                                            Burning Daylight
                                            Jack London
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