How To Spin Gold Into Straw
A Fable
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1.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
A pro business, pro people, pro growth, pro freedom fable. Truth and facts versus ideas; that is the story. Real freedom and wealth versus dogma and doctrine; that is the choice. Because in the ongoing struggle between facts and ideas, it is truth and facts that can lead to greatness, and ideas that can destroy it all. The working title was "The Idea Guys," because it is the guys with the big ideas who are always the greatest threat to what we have and what we can have. - Dennis Paulaha
"There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea-breaker."
- Miguel de Unamuno
Spanish philosopher, essayist, novelist, playwright, and poet.
September 29, 1864 - December 31, 1936
"I wrote this little book to scare people into voting by showing how we are encouraging our own destruction by not standing up for and protecting what made this the greatest country in the world, even if it was for only a short time." - Dennis Paulaha
B.S. and M.A. degrees in Economics from the University of Minnesota. Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Washington. As a college and university professor, taught macroeconomic and microeconomic theory at the principles, intermediate, advanced, and graduate level, monetary theory and policy, environmental economics, and special issues courses. Wrote investment newsletters with as many as 70,000 paid subscribers. Reviewed in magazines and newspapers. Interviewed on television and radio programs.
Customer Reviews
A stilted endorsement of two party lesser evilism.
While the story does provide some economic wisdom, the story line itself is a barely coherent. It is a political paper tiger fairy tale meant to convince the reader that it is good to vote against the lesser of two evils evil. Sadly that premise is based upon the presumption of just two parties.
The story briefly mentions but doesn’t really address the problem that the two parties are actually two faces of one corporate controlled party. It fails to integrate the fact that more choice is better, and that voting against evil doesn’t mean having to vote for the other corporate owned party. There are other parties and independents to choose from that the duopoly actively suppresses, which should have been included in this allegory.