According to Bobbitt, “The lesson of Machiavelli’s advice to statesmen is: don’t kid yourself. What annoyed . . . Machiavelli was the willingness of his contemporaries to pretend that quite simple formulations were adequate to the task of governing in the common interest.” Plainly, the market state is a formula of precisely this kind.
- John Gray reviews Philip Bobbitt's new book The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made
- John Gray reviews Philip Bobbitt's new book The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made
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