How Much Is Enough?: Money And The Good Life - Hardcover

Skidelsky, Edward

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9781846144486: How Much Is Enough?: Money And The Good Life

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ISBN 10: 1846144485 ISBN 13: 9781846144486

Publisher: Allen Lane, 2012

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HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?

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About the Author:

Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three volume biography of John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. ('This three-volume life of the British economist should be given a Nobel Prize for History if there was such a thing' - Norman Stone.) He was made a life peer in 1991, and aFellow of the British Academy in 1994. Edward Skidelsky is a lecturer in the Philosophy Department of the University of Exeter. He contributes regularly to the New Statesman, Telegraph, Spectator and Prospect. His previous books include The Conditions of Goodness and Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture.

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A crisp and pungent book -- Rowan Williams * Prospect * "How much is enough?" is a good question. Anyone who sets store by capitalism and markets will find [this] book uncomfortable reading. It should be read all the same * Economist * A truly innovative and radical perspective on reshaping the economy ... thought-stirring and extremely refreshing -- John Gray * Guardian * A welcome call to reinvigorate society's ethical aspect and bring about the good life for everyone * New Yorker * In their thoughtful book, the Skidelskys move seamlessly from the abstract to the concrete; from philosophy to public policy. They note that Keynes's futuristic essay was ignored as the world sank into the Great Depression. Will we again ignore this call to imagine a better future? -- Jon Cruddas MP * Independent *

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