Beyond Self-Interest: Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject It 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780197620953,9780197620939,0197620957,0197620930

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0197620957
• ISBN-13: 9780197620953
• Author: Krzysztof Pelc
  

In our capitalist market society, we have come to accept that the way to get ahead is through strong will, grit, and naked ambition. This belief has served us well: it has contributed to making our affluent societies affluent. But does the premise still hold?As Krzysztof Pelc argues in Beyond Self-Interest, this default assumption no longer captures reality. There is a limit to the returns of calculation, planning, and resolve, and in a growing number of settings, this limit has been reached. The true idols of market society, he contends, are those who disavow their self-interest, or at least appear to do so: eco-conscious entrepreneurs, media moguls with a mission, and modern-day artisans catering to a well-educated and ever more socially conscious population of consumers. Increasingly, those who prosper do so by spurning prosperity, or by convincing others that they are instead pursuing purpose, passion, love of craft-anything but their own self-advancement. This is the paradox of intention, and it is increasingly defining our lives.

Table contents:

1. Crisis and Conversion

2. The Byproduct Society

3. Why Disinterest Pays

4. On Fakers

5. On Sellouts

6. The Anti-Instrumentalists

7. The Place of Leisure in a Market Economy

8. Resisting the Intelligence Intelligently

9. Social Conditions for Individual Epiphanies

People also search:

Beyond Self-Interest

krzysztof pelc beyond self interest

beyond self interest meaning

is self interest hyphenated

beyond self actualization