Power, pleasure, and profit insatiable appetites from Machiavelli to Madison
"We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning--cost-benefit analysis--to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable. As David Wootton...
| Main Author: | Wootton, David, 1952- |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2018.
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
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