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A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next

This edited volume is devoted to history of moral concepts, including shame, contempt, happiness, conscience, cleanliness and "the brick".

Argues that wealth is not - or should not be - an end in itself, but a means to 'the good life'. Tracing the concept from Aristotle to the present, th

This edited volume is devoted to history of moral concepts, including shame, contempt, happiness, conscience, cleanliness and "the brick".

This is the first English-language intellectual biography of the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), a leading figure on the Weimar

Starting with an assessment of the material, political, cultural and moral resources Britain brought to the twentieth century, the author turns to how

Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the following Great Recession, there has been surprisingly little change in the systems of ideas, institutions

When unbridled capitalism falters, is there an alternative? This title shows how the great economist's ideas not only explain why the current financia

Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three volume biography of John Maynard Keynes (1983, 199

Skidelsky brilliantly synthesizes from John Maynard Keynes's career and life the aspects of his thinking that apply most directly to today's world. In

This volume scrutinizes the functionality of a capitalist market society, which is usually praised for the efficiency and dynamism, rather than for it

A story of tennis, obsession and Roger Federer for tennis fans and the general reader alike. For much of the past decade, William Skidelsky has not

This timely book debates the economic and political logic of the austerity policies that have been implemented in the UK and in the Eurozone since 201

In Ethiek en recht in kort bestek worden kort de belangrijkste stromingen in de ethiek belicht en de relatie die deze stromingen hebben met het recht.