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Brief Summary Is It Just Me Or Has the Shit Hit the Fan? Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global Misery The authors of Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit? survey the post-crash landscape—are we better people now, or just the same people with less money? "Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' daughter Suri (with her thick dark hair and wide eyes . . . ) has been named the most 'influential' A-list toddler in a new Forbes list. The two-year-old beat Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's kids . . . " Forbes has an Influential Toddler list. Forbes has an Influential Toddler list.Forbes has, it bears repeating, an Influential Toddler list. From bank bailouts to enviro-copouts; from Tory politicans listening to The Jam to celebrity credit crunch "victims" Grant Bovey and Anthea Turner; from BNP coppers to Christian theme parks to middle-class shoppers banging on about budget supermarkets; plus everyone banging on about The Wire. Funny, sharp, and timely, Is It Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan? asks the crucial questions of the new age, like; why are the people who screwed the world still running the world and screwing the world until we're all screwed more than we've ever been screwed before? ISBN:9781847443656 Author:Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur

Brief Summary How important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always talented and hardworking. But liberals are also correct to note that countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much. In recent years, social scientists have discovered that chance plays a much larger role in important life outcomes than most people imagine. In Success and Luck, bestselling author and New York Times economics columnist Robert Frank explores the surprising implications of those findings to show why the rich underestimate the importance of luck in success--and why that hurts everyone, even the wealthy. Frank describes how, in a world increasingly dominated by winner-take-all markets, chance opportunities and trivial initial advantages often translate into much larger ones--and enormous income differences--over time; how false beliefs about luck persist, despite compelling evidence against them; and how myths about personal success and luck shape individual and political choices in harmful ways. But, Frank argues, we could decrease the inequality driven by sheer luck by adopting simple, unintrusive policies that would free up trillions of dollars each year--more than enough to fix our crumbling infrastructure, expand healthcare coverage, fight global warming, and reduce poverty, all without requiring painful sacrifices from anyone. If this sounds implausible, you'll be surprised to discover that the solution requires only a few, noncontroversial steps. Compellingly readable, Success and Luck shows how a more accurate understanding of the role of chance in life could lead to better, richer, and fairer economies and societies. ISBN:9780691167404 Author:Robert H Frank