Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison: by David Wootton, Cambridge, MA, Belknap Press/harvard University Press, 2018, 400 pp., £25.95/€31.50

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David Wootton has written an engaging book about the emergence of the theory that all human action is self-interested and that believes societies should be structured in ways that satisfy our “insa...

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