{"product_id":"the-stupids-step-out","title":"The Stupids Step Out","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Allard, Harry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Clarion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e Illustrated\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Illustrated\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 32\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 27-04-1977\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780395253779\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Stupids and their dog, Kitty, have a fun-filled day doing ridiculous things.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nReview\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nEven youngest listeners will laugh with smug superiority as they follow these good natured dummkopfs from departure to journey's end. School Library Journal, Starred\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHarry Allard is the author of many hilarious books for children, including several\u003cbr\u003e\nMiss Nelson and\u003cbr\u003e\nStupid Family titles, all illustrated by James Marshall.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nJames Marshall (1942-1992) created dozens of exuberant and captivating books for children, including The Stupids, Miss Nelson Is Missing!, and the ever-popular George and Martha books. Before creating his canon of classic, hilarious children's books, James Marshall played the viola, studied French, and received a master's degree from Trinity College. He also doodled. It was the doodles, and the unforgettable characters that emerged from them, that led him to his life's work as one of the finest creators of children's books of the twentieth century. In 2007, James Marshall was posthumously awarded the Laura Ingalls Wilder medal for his lasting contribution to literature for children.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nExcerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\ngreat theorist of the free market believed in Providence. \"The happiness of\u003cbr\u003e\nmankind,\" Smith wrote, \"seems to have been the original purpose intended by\u003cbr\u003e\nthe Author of nature.\" The workings of the Lord could be found not in the\u003cbr\u003e\npages of a holy book, nor in miracles, but in the daily, mundane buying-and-\u003cbr\u003e\nselling of the marketplace. Each purchase might be driven by an individual\u003cbr\u003e\ndesire, but behind them all lay \"the invisible hand\" of the Divine. This invisible\u003cbr\u003e\nhand set prices and wages. It determined supply and demand. It represented\u003cbr\u003e\nthe sum of all human wishes. Without relying on any conscious intervention\u003cbr\u003e\nby man, the free market improved agriculture and industry, created surplus\u003cbr\u003e\nwealth, and made sure that the things being produced were the things people\u003cbr\u003e\nwanted to buy. Human beings lacked the wisdom, Smith felt, to improve\u003cbr\u003e\nsociety deliberately or to achieve Progress through some elaborate plan. But\u003cbr\u003e\nif every man pursued his own self-interest and obeyed only his \"passions,\"\u003cbr\u003e\nthe invisible hand would guarantee that everybody else benefited, too.\u003cbr\u003e\n Published in 1776, The Wealth of Nations later had a profound\u003cbr\u003e\neffect upon the nation born that year. The idea that \"life, liberty, and the\u003cbr\u003e\npursuit of happiness\" were unalienable rights, endowed by a Creator, fit\u003cbr\u003e\nperfectly with the economic theories of Adam Smith. \"Life, liberty and estate\"\u003cbr\u003e\nwas the well-known phrase that Thomas Jefferson amended slightly for the\u003cbr\u003e\nDeclaration of Independence. The United States was the first country to\u003cbr\u003e\ndiscard feudal and aristocratic traditions and replace them with a republican\u003cbr\u003e\ndevotion to marketplace ideals. More than two centuries later, America\"s\u003cbr\u003e\nleading companies—General Motors, General Electric, ExxonMobil,\u003cbr\u003e\nMicrosoft, Wal-Mart, Boeing, et al.—have annual revenues larger than those\u003cbr\u003e\nof many sovereign states. No currency is more powerful than the U.S. dollar,\u003cbr\u003e\nand the closing prices on Wall Street guide the financial markets of Tokyo,\u003cbr\u003e\nLondon, Paris, and Frankfurt. The unsurpassed wealth of the United States\u003cbr\u003e\nhas enabled it to build a military without rival. And yet there is more to the\u003cbr\u003e\nU.S. economy, much more, than meets the eye. 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