The new record holder for the longest sentence.
This book, written by Economist Antony Davies and Political Philosopher James R. Harrigan, details and delineates the economic actions that affect our lives into two categories, Cooperation and Coercion.
Economics at its root level is the free exchange of goods and services between two individuals. "I give you a cow, you give me a dozen chickens. and we each walk away from that deal, believing we are richer than when we started." Money is merely a universal medium of exchange so I don't have to spend time trading for exactly what the seller wants. Another way to put it is, "I have $2, and you have a loaf of bread. For me, the value the loaf of bread to me is more than the value of the $2 in my pocket. For you, the $2 is worth more than the bread." This is why we both walk away from such a trade believing we profited from it. We are both richer for having made that trade.
In the words of Ben Shapiro, "Capitalism is forced altruism. In order for me to make a profit, I must offer a good or service that people want at a price that enough people can afford." Steve Jobs did this with the Apple Computer and Tim Cook did it with the iPhone.
This book Antony and James break apart things like The Minimum Wage, Gun Control, The Wars on Nouns, Taxes, Debt and "Busybullies," which is basically a Mrs. Kravitz when she's in charge of a government organization.
This is also a remarkedly even-handed and clinical approach to each subject, especially the most politically charged subject of Gun Control.
The title line at the beginning refers to a book about Morals and Dogma: of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, written by Albert Pike. A long-winded fellow, he had a single sentence in that book that ran for a page and a half. In Cooperation and Coercion, they have one that runs two pages and nine lines.