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

ISBN: 0674976673

ISBN13: 9780674976672

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

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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 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 shows, it is anything but. In Power, Pleasure,...

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