The book emphasizes the importance of diligent study and preparation in understanding and interpreting spiritual truths. It encourages readers to seek approval from God through their efforts, highlighting the necessity of being knowledgeable and competent in their faith. The message focuses on the responsibility of believers to engage deeply with scripture, ensuring they can accurately convey its teachings and live out their faith without shame.
Focusing on the impact of compulsory, privately administered defined contribution pensions, the book critiques how such systems enable rent-seeking behavior among fund administrators, ultimately harming retirees' income and well-being. While centered on Chile, the findings extend to various Latin American and Eastern European nations with similar pension structures. The authors analyze the pension fund industry's structure, pricing, and performance, arguing that state regulation has concentrated capital among administrators and reflects conservative values rather than neoliberal principles.
Set against the backdrop of 1953 Italy, Jack Dewey, a gentleman thief and WWII veteran, is drawn into a covert CIA operation. Tasked with tracking a rogue Soviet General, he unexpectedly encounters Natalina Scherbina, a failed assassin. Despite their tumultuous history, they form an uneasy alliance to unravel a conspiracy that intertwines the General, the Italian Mafia, and a former Nazi with dubious goals for Europe. As they navigate danger and deception, their partnership reveals unexpected layers of intrigue and betrayal.
This book addresses the tendency to mischaracterise liberalism as a “neoliberal” reform project, arguing that liberal political philosophy is concerned only to sustain the conditions that make individual freedom possible. This is illustrated with reference to the design of pensions. Considered in terms of liberal justice, retirement systems require redistributive transfers to help the poor, measures to ensure that retirees are rewarded on their merits, and provisions that treat everyone with equal dignity and respect. Rather than presenting liberal pensions as a close analogue to neoliberalism, this volume highlights their egalitarian virtues. This book will appeal to scholars of retirement and pensions, social policy, economics and political philosophy.