God and Wealth:The Rise and Fall of Nations

Why must man fear God? What is the purpose of government? What is the purpose of wealth? Why do nations rise and fall? What happens to the soul of a soldier who kills his enemy? What is the second sin committed by man after his Creation? Does man have free will and why should man obey the law? Why are some nations wealthy and other nations poor? Are improvements in productivity ethical when they lead to unemployment? Why are there wars? Is slavery ethical and moral? Why is there poverty? Is charity ethical and moral? Is abortion a sin? What is the future of mankind? This book answers these and other provocative questions by presenting an internally consistent and cogent philosophy.

The author, Nicholas Georgalis, has a BS is Engineering from Case Institute of Technology and an MS in Engineering from Cleveland State University. As an engineer and manager for AT&T between 1980 and 1990, the author and many other managers conducted economic studies to improve labor productivity by automating AT&Ts manual processes. The result was a loss of thousands of jobs while the value of AT&T's stock increased ten fold thus creating great wealth. The author's concern about the moral and ethical aspects of such rapid gains in productivity gave rise to this book. Apart from engineering economics and statistics, the author is autodidactic in philosophy, history, government, macroeconomics, and religion, the other major disciplines that are the subject of this book.