Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison by David Wootton

Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison

David Wootton

400 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy informative slow-paced
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A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents.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 our...

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