Books by Robert Skidelsky
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review 1: Pretty uneven, and not particularly useful. It offered an interesting history of the evolution of thought behind the accumulation of wealth, or, why we collectively decided to continue to pursue more and more money and stuff instead of choosing leisure as an alternative. But ...
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review 1: I’m sympathetic to the main argument of the Skidelskys’ book: that the pursuit of money (and economic growth) for its own sake is not only socially and environmentally destructive but also absurd. Without any social consensus on what money is for, we settle for perpetually chasin...
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review 1: SKIDELSKY Robert; SKIDELSKY Edward: „How much is enough? Money and the Good Life“, London 2012Father and son have written a book. At a conference in Dürnstein I could hear these theses from fathers voice. This gave the impetus to read the book.For interesting pages of a book I al...