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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Wootton, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; To the Reader --; 1. Insatiable Appetites --; 2. Power: (Mis)Reading Machiavelli --; 3. Happiness: Words and Concepts --; 4. Selfish Systems: Hobbes and Locke --; 5. Utility: In Place of Virtue --; 6. The State: Checks and Balances --; 7. Profit: The Invisible Hand --; 8. The Market: Poverty and Famines --; 9. Self-Evidence --; Appendix A: On Emulation, and on the Canon --; Appendix B: Double-Entry Bookkeeping --; Appendix C: “Equality” in Machiavelli --; Appendix D: The Good Samaritan --; Appendix E: Prudence and the Young Man --; Appendix F: “ The Market” --; Notes --; Illustration Credits --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674989887; 9783110606621
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674989887
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Wootton.

David Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and economics stepped into a gap opened up by religious conflict and the Scientific Revolution. As ideas about godliness and Aristotelian virtue faded, theories about the rational pursuit of power, pleasure, and profit moved to the fore.