IN RETROSPECT: The Prince

Whitfield, John

¹John Whitfield is the author of People Will Talk: The Surprising Science of Reputation, and comment editor of Research Fortnight and Research Europe.

Published online 17 July 2013

Nature 499(7458):p 280-281, July 18, 2013. | DOI: 10.1038/499280a

John Whitfield finds resonance with today's behavioural sciences in Niccolò Machiavelli's great Renaissance political treatise, begun five centuries ago this month.