The Politics and Business of Self-Interest from Tocqueville to Trump

• Main Author: Lebow, Richard Ned (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: International Political Theory,
• Subjects: United States-Politics and government.; Political theory.; Democracy.; US Politics.; Political Theory.

Self-interest is an important human motive and this book explores its evolution in the United States and its consequences for politics, business, and personal relationships. In the postwar era American understandings of self-interest have moved away from Alexis de Tocqueville's concept of "...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Self-Interest
• 3 Presidential Speeches
• 4 I Love Lucy to Modern Family
• 5 Rock to Rap
• 6 Self-Interest and Democracy.