How Much Is Enough? Money and the Good Life

Name: How Much Is Enough? Money and the Good Life
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ISBN: 9781590516348

ISBN-10: 1590516346

ISBN-13: 9781590516348

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Authors: Robert Skidelsky, Edward Skidelsky

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A provocative and timely call for a moral approach to economics, drawing on philosophers, political theorists, writers, and economists from Aristotle to Marx to Keynes.What constitutes the good life? What is the true value of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to acquire greater wealth? These are some of the questions that many asked themselves when the financial system crashed in 2008. This book tackles such questions head-on.The authors begin with the great economist John Maynard Keynes. In 1930 Keynes predicted that, within a century, per capita income would steadily rise, people’s basic needs would be met, and no one would have to work more than fifteen hours a week. Clearly,…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Publication date: 8/20/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Robert Skidelsky, a professor of political economy at Warwick University, is also the author of Politicians and the Slump and Oswald Mosley.



Preface


List of Charts


Introduction



Keynes's Mistake



The Faustian Bargain



The Uses of Wealth



The Mirage of Happiness



Limits to Growth: Natural or Moral?



Elements of the Good Life



Exits from the Rat Race


Afterword


Notes


Index