How Much Is Enough?
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Overall, I found Skidelsky & Skidelsky's "How Much is Enough" to be an intellectually stimulating, engaging, and well-reasoned book. I think their call for a more moral understanding of economics is sorely needed, especially in an age when liberals and progressives all too often justify their recomm......more

I really had to put effort to complete the book. First of all there are lots of assumptions in the book. As a result I was bit frustrated about it. More so there is lot of philosophical discussions rather than hard facts or figures which should be the key component in any economic analysis. Also the......more

I've written a short review for CHOICE. Here I'll make some more specific comments. I expected, from comments I've read, a very poor argument for a wishy-washy romantic argument about the end of scarcity. Robert Skidelsky is the biographer of J. Maynard Keynes, who famously thought that the prospects......more

One-Minute Review Written by Robert and Edward Skidelsky, How Much is Enough? is my favourite book of the year, and my only five-star rating on Goodreads in 2012. The authors have crafted a philosophical discussion about our insatiable appetites for economic growth, which so far have ignored a key qu......more

This is a quirky, uneven book, but with enough good ideas to make it worth reading. What I liked was their exploration of why Keynes and everyone else who thought that abundance would bring a decline of work, have failed. I also liked their discussion of the basic income, which they recommend. Also......more