Today I am sharing three books I read last year and a quote from each. I would not recommend reading the Economics textbook unless you have to for a class. It was very long and thorough!
Women in the Church,
although not ordained to the priesthood, still act with legitimate priesthood
power and authority in the ecclesiastical structure of the Church—authority
that is not made available to any other women or men on the earth. So, paradoxically, though I hold no
priesthood office, I believe I exercise more priesthood authority than do my
sisters in other religious groups (pg. 85).
The unemployment of any resource creates economic
waste. Unemployed labor is of particular
concern, however. If oil, copper ore, or
timber are currently unemployed, they can be used later. Similarly, inventories that are not sold and
that remain unused because of a change in demand can usually be stored for sale
and consumption later. Even unemployed capital is available for use at some
point in the future, although it will generally have depreciated somewhat over
time. Labor, however, is perishable—it
cannot be stored fur future use. If you are unemployed today, the output that
you would have produced is forever lost to the economy. You may go back to work tomorrow, but it is
not possible for the economy to recover and use the hours that you did not work
today. For this reason, unemployed labor imposes large efficiency losses on an
economy (pgs. 320, 321).
By embracing a less than perfectly planned conception,
becoming a father and attempting to meaningfully engage in a child’s life,
young men are embracing the chance to do something productive to counteract the
problems they see all around them (pg. 67).
Men at the bottom are less likely to get married, but
they are far more likely than those in the middle class to have children across
multiple partnerships. These men are on a family-go-round, where good
fatherhood is accomplished by moving from one child to another- by trying again
and again (pg. 189).
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