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BEYOND SELF-INTEREST - KRZYSZTOF PELC TASCHENBUCH

'Lucid  smartly written ... A welcome intervention into the debate surrounding the future of
liberalism' Financial Times 'It takes scholarly courage and knowledge to upend Adam Smith  but
this is what Krzysztof Pelc has done . . . Profound and brilliant' Robert Skidelsky 'A
fascinating book  bursting with paradoxes  riddles and counterintuitive ideas that will
challenge some of your strongest beliefs about how society works' Daniel Susskind 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?

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