Reading Shorts from Scenes from Private Life | Alexandria
Read Shorts from Scenes from Private Life by Honore de Balzac. Piercing social masks, Balzac's Scenes reveals how our deepest desires shape economic choices - an insight centuries ahead of behavioral economics. While appearing to chronicle private dramas, these stories expose how personal ambition drives markets and social structures. His radical proposition? True power lies not in wealth, but in understanding others' hidden motivations.