List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. "The Less They Value Virtue": Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas on the Corrupting Influence of Moneymaking - Personal and Political
2. "The Felicity of This Life": Machiavelli and Hobbes on the Possibility of Delightful Living
3. "The Desire of Having More": Locke on Labor and the Right to Accumulate without Limit
4. "A Course Intended by Nature": Smith and Kant on the Overwhelming Benefits of Commerce - Domestic and International
5. "Make Money Contemptible and, If Possible, Useless": Rousseau on Modern Discontent
6. "The Reason Which Shines Through": Hegel on the Ethical Dimensions of the Market
7. "Free, Conscious Activity": Marx on Alienation and the Path to Human Emancipation
8. "A Dozen Wise Men": Lenin on the Revolutionary Vanguard
9. "The Function of Industry": Tawney on the Demands of Equality and the Need for Democracy
10. "Reflection, Brooding, Worry, Love, and Hatred": Nietzsche on a Higher Concept of Culture
11. "The Nobler Exercise of the Faculties": Keynes on the Art of Enjoyment
12. "A Narrow Field of Vision": Hayek on the Limits of Knowledge
13. "The Curse of Money": Rawls on Plutocracy and the Demands of Economic Justice
14. "An Endless Spiral": Piketty on the Dynamics of Wealth and Income Inequality in the Twenty-First Century
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
