Passions Within Reasons Crown Publishing Group Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein

Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein first made a name for themselves with the outrageously funny New York Times bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar

witty and illuminating

is the hero of it God

essays and articles collected here span a quarter century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and 'reveal a preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world'

Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2016

Passions Within Reasons Crown Publishing Group Thomas Cathcart and Daniel KleinIn this book, I make use of an idea from economics to suggest how noble human tendencies might not only have survived the ruthless pressures of the material world, but actually have been nurtured by them. The idea rests on a simple paradox, namely, that in many situations the conscious pursuit of self interest is incompatible with its attainment. We are all comfortable with the notion that someone who strives to be spontaneous can never succeed. So