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BEYOND SELF-INTEREST - KRZYSZTOF PELC KARTONIER...

'A fascinating book  bursting with paradoxes  riddles and counterintuitive ideas that will
challenge some of your strongest beliefs about how society works' Daniel Susskind 'It takes
scholarly courage and knowledge to upend Adam Smith  but this is what Krzysztof Pelc has done .
. . Profound and brilliant' Robert Skidelsky __________________ In his first book  brilliant
young political economist Krzysztof Pelc overturns our understanding of how self-interest
works. We've learned that the way to get ahead is through strong will  grit and naked ambition.
The belief that self-interest makes the world go round has served us well: it has helped make
our society more affluent. But does that premise still hold? In Beyond Self-Interest  Krzysztof
Pelc argues that those who prosper increasingly do so by spurning prosperity  or by convincing
others that they are pursuing passion  purpose  love of craft - anything but their own
self-advancement. From the Puritans  who followed a religious calling and yet made a killing 
to the fastest-growing firms of today  who claim to be 'changing to the world' through 'doing
what they love'  declaring passion over profit is a profitable move. A bold  incisive and
original work that draws on three centuries of intellectual thought  Beyond Self-Interest is a
book to upend how we relate to capitalism. What if the true driver of market society is not the
appearance of self-interest  but its opposite? __________________ 'Lucid  smartly written ... A
welcome intervention into the debate surrounding the future of liberalism' Financial Times

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