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...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2018.
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Оглавление:
- Insatiable appetites
- Power: (mis)reading Machiavelli
- Happiness: words and concepts
- Selfish systems: Hobbes and Locke
- Utility: in place of virtue
- The state: checks and balances
- Profit: the invisible hand
- The market: poverty and famines
- Self-evidence.