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Book SynopsisA History of Political Thought analyses market society by surveying the ideas of its most perceptive, thought-provoking observers critics and defenders from ancient Greece to the present day.
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction 1. “The Less They Value Virtue”: Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas on the Corrupting Influence of Moneymaking – Personal and Political 2. “The Felicity of This Life”: Machiavelli and Hobbes on the Possibility of Delightful Living 3. “The Desire of Having More”: Locke on Labor and the Right to Accumulate without Limit 4. “A Course Intended by Nature”: Smith and Kant on the Overwhelming Benefits of Commerce – Domestic and International 5. “Make Money Contemptible and, If Possible, Useless”: Rousseau on Modern Discontent 6. “The Reason Which Shines Through”: Hegel on the Ethical Dimensions of the Market 7. “Free, Conscious Activity”: Marx on Alienation and the Path to Human Emancipation 8. “A Dozen Wise Men”: Lenin on the Revolutionary Vanguard 9. “The Function of Industry”: Tawney on the Demands of Equality and the Need for Democracy 10. “Reflection, Brooding, Worry, Love, and Hatred”: Nietzsche on a Higher Concept of Culture 11. “The Nobler Exercise of the Faculties”: Keynes on the Art of Enjoyment 12. “A Narrow Field of Vision”: Hayek on the Limits of Knowledge 13. “The Curse of Money”: Rawls on Plutocracy and the Demands of Economic Justice 14. “An Endless Spiral”: Piketty on the Dynamics of Wealth and Income Inequality in the Twenty-First Century Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
