David joins Melvyn Bragg to discuss Mandeville’s work on the public benefit of private vices.
Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Out Now
Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison is available now.
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Wootton demonstrates a consistent ability to make complex intellectual ideas approachable.
“Histories of ideas can be a snooze, but this is a surprisingly lucid examination of a dramatic revolution in human thought.” Read the Kirkus review of Power, Pleasure, and Profit.
Self-mastery versus self-interest
“Wootton writes to provoke. His style is engaging, and he has a practiced eye for finding the historically telling detail.” Jeffrey Collins (professor of history at Queen’s University, Ontario) reviews Power, Pleasure, and Profit for The Wall Street Journal.
Power, Pleasure, and Profit in Portuguese
Power, Pleasure, and Profit will appear in Portuguese, to be published by Círculo de Leitores.
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