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Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison
Power Pleasure and Profit Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison
Author: David Wootton
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 ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitab...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674976672
ISBN-10: 0674976673
Publication Date: 10/8/2018
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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