Аннотация
Bertrand Russell
In praise of idleness
(1932)
Note: This is a very interesting essay on consumption and work, written a few years before Keynes produced his General Theory. If these ideas of Bertrand Russell had been properly examined, may be we would have been spared, if not the horror of the war, certainly most nonsense that was and is still presented as modern economic thought on work and employment.
Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do." Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told, and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment. But although my conscience has controlled my actions, my opinions have undergone a revolution. I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is ...
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