Synopses & Reviews
In God Wants You to Be Rich, bestselling author Paul Zane Pilzer provides an original, provocative view of how to accumulate wealth and why it is beneficial to all of humankind. A theology of economics, this book explores why God wants each of us to be rich in every way -- physically, emotionally, and financially -- and shows the way to prosperity, well-being, and peace of mind.
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Scott DeGarmo Editor in Chief and Publisher, Success Magazine Paul Zane Pilzer's unique gift is to tame the mysteries of making money and put you in the saddle. God Wants You to Be Rich will set your mind racing with new ideas.
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Boston Herald A challenging yet witty view of who's really in charge of all abundance.
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Julian Simon Professor of Business Administration, University of Maryland, author of The Ultimate Resource Paul Zane Pilzer's new book makes you understand how and why the world will be getting ever richer materially. He gets it right.
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Anthony Robbins bestselling author of Awaken the Giant Within A must-read -- Paul Zane Pilzer has helped to shift our thinking from scarcity in resources to one of a cornucopia of economic abundance and richness.
About the Author
Paul Zane Pilzer completed college in three years and received his M.B.A. from Wharton Graduate Business School in fifteen months at age twenty-two. At age twenty-four, he was appointed a professor at New York University.
While employed as Citibank's youngest officer at age twenty-two and its youngest vice-president at twenty-five, Pilzer started several entrepreneurial businesses and earned his first million before age twenty-six.
He has been an appointed economic adviser in two presidential administrations. In 1985 he testified before Congress, warning that the SandL problem would grow to a $200 billion-dollar disaster. Congress didn't listen, and in 1989 Pilzer wrote Other People's Money (SimonandSchuster), which was critically acclaimed by The New York Times, The Economist magazine, and Nobel prizewinner John Kenneth Galbraith.
Pilzer's second book, Unlimited Wealth (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1991, 1994), explained how we live in a world of unlimited physical resources because of rapidly advancing technology. After reading Unlimited Wealth, the late Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, said that he was "amazed at Pilzer's business capacity" and his "ability to put it into layman's terms." Unlimited Wealth has been published in Japan, Taiwan, and the Russian Republic.
But the greatest accolades have come for God Wants You to Be Rich, which appeared on The New York Times Business bestseller list, was featured on the cover of national magazines such as Success, and was the subject of a front-page story in The Wall Street Journal.
Today, Pilzer is a contributing editor to two economic journals, an adjunct professor at New York University, and the Founder and Publisher of Zane Publishing, Inc., a leading CD-ROM educational publisher.
He has been a regular commentator on CNN and National Public Radio, and has appeared several times on the Larry King Live! television program.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS 1 GOD WANTS YOU TO BE RICH
2 THE COVENANT
3 THE SEARCH FOR CAMELOT
4 ECONOMIC ALCHEMY
5 WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR JOBS
6 THE WORKPLACE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
7 MONEY
8 GOVERNMENT
9 LEADERSHIP
Illustrative Articles
Chapter 3
The End of the World (Again)
Why Do We Have So Much Bad News?
Why Do Businesses Sometimes Report Bad News?
Dr. Doom
The "Ecologist"
The Club of Rome
Julian Simon
John Maynard Keynes
John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Search for Camelot
Ronald Reagan's Search for Camelot
What Really Happened During the 1980s
Chapter 4
How Sony Learned from Its Mistake
How IBM Did Not Learn from Its Success
Distribution -- The Greatest Opportunity in the 1990s
Why Retailing in the 1990s May Resemble
Retailing in the 1950s
Chapter 5
Should You Quit Before You're Fired?
Why Immigrants Are often the Best Employees
The Jonah Dilemma
Sears and J. C. Penney Face the Jonah Dilemma
Chapter 6
The Rise and Fall of Scientific Management
Outsourcing -- The Reconstruction of a Catsup Manufacturer -- Part 1
Outsourcing -- The Reconstruction of a Catsup Manufacturer -- Part 2
How to Quit Before You're Fired
Making Your Employer Your First Customer
Health Care
Chapter 7
God Loves Savers
How Customers Abandoned banks in the 1970s
How Bank Invented Fictitious Customers in the 1980s
How Some Businesses Generate Capital As They Expand
Time, Inventory, and Money
Real Estate, Elasticity, and Interest Rates
How to Hit Criminals Where It Hurts the Most
Chapter 8
Today's Heresy Is Tomorrow's Dogma
Turning Swords into Piowshares (Almost)
What's Wrong with Public Education
Automobile Theft
The Greatest Challenge of Our Century
Unemployment Compensation
Appendix
The Principles and Six Laws of Economic Alchemy
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index