On the Skids

[ How Much Is Enough? Money and the Good Life by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky. (Other Press, 2012; x + 243 pp.)] Robert Skidelsky is best known for his three-volume biography of Lord Keynes, and his son Edward is a philosopher who has written an excellent book on Ernst Cassirer. How Much Is Enough? contains valuable discussions of happiness research in economics and of global warming, as well as a capsule history of a good deal of both Western and Asian intellectual history; but unfortunately, the book is a disappointment. It rehashes stale complaints against the free market, and its