1.Reading Machiavelli, from Corporations to Climate Crisis

Adam Woodhouse (Robinson College, Cambridge) introduces us to the man behind a name which instantly evokes skulduggery and ruthless political effectiveness: Machiavelli. Adam takes us beyond the cliches to offer a picture of Machiavelli’s life, times, and ideas. Moreover, Adam highlights a neglected facet of Machiavelli’s thought: His notion of economic growth. If Machiavelli has a theory of growth, what might he have made of the modern proposal for de-growth? And how should we read an early sixteenth-century political philosopher today, in the age of the corporation?

 

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