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ROBERT AND EDWARD SKIDELSKY
How Much is Enough?
The Love of Money and the Case for the Good Life
ALLEN LANE
an imprint of
PENGUIN BOOKS
Contents
Preface
List of Charts
Introduction
1.  Keynes’s Mistake
2.  The Faustian Bargain
3.  The Uses of Wealth
4.  The Mirage of Happiness
5.  Limits to Growth: Natural or Moral?
6.  Elements of the Good Life
7.  Exits from the Rat Race
Notes
To Hugo
That his possibilities may live up to the hopes
Keynes had for his ‘grandchildren’
List of Charts
Keynes’s Forecast
Growth since Keynes
Weekly Hours since Keynes
Hours of Work since 1983
Income Share of the Richest 1 per cent
GDP per Head and Life Satisfaction
Happiness According to Income Position in the UK
Happiness and Income by Country
Alcohol-related Deaths in the UK
Obesity in the UK
Unemployment in OECD Countries
Income Inequality since 1977
Distribution of Wealth in the UK
Marriage and Divorce in the UK
Attendance at Cultural Events in the UK
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
Epicurus
Preface
As we were writing the book, friends of ours often asked us, half-jokingly, ‘Are you going to tell us how much you think is enough?’ We found it sensible to riposte by asking, as if in the spirit of scholarly enquiry, ‘How much do you
think is enough?’ We often got the answer ‘Enough for what?’ to which we replied, ‘Enough to live a good life’. This sometimes did elicit a stab at a number, though, as was to be expected, the number varied markedly according to age, circumstances and nationality. The fact is, of course, that one can only hope to get a meaningful and perhaps binding answer to the question from people who accept that there is such a thing as a good life, independent of their own subjective desires. The purpose of this book is to persuade the reader that such a thing – the good life – does exist and can be known, and that we ought to strive to live it. How much money we need to live it comes at the end of the argument, not at the beginning.
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Many people have helped us. We are extraordinarily grateful to Armand Clesse, director of the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies, for organizing a symposium on the book in Luxembourg on 27–28 May 2011. Armand, who chaired in his usual vivacious style, had assembled an interdisciplinary galaxy: Michael Ambrosi, Christian Arnsperger, Tom Bauler, Mathias Binswinger, Ulrich Brand, Isabelle Cassiers, Aditya Chakrabortty, Andrew Hallam, Mario Hirsch, Sir Anthony Kenny, Charles Kenn ............

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