The Devil's Riches : : A Modern History of Greed / / Jared Poley.
A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years. This multilayered account offers a fresh take on an old topic, arguing that greed was experienced as a moral phenomenon and deployed to make sense of an unj...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION The Devil’s Riches: A Modern History of Greed
- CHAPTER ONE Greed and Avarice before Absolutism
- CHAPTER TWO The Confessionalization of an Emotion
- CHAPTER THREE Greed and the Law in the Seventeenth Century
- CHAPTER FOUR Greed, Consumerism, and the State
- CHAPTER FIVE Greed and the Oscillations between Liberalism and Socialism
- CHAPTER SIX Greed and the New Spiritualism
- CHAPTER SEVEN The Psychology and Psychoanalysis of Greed
- Conclusions: Greed and History
- INDEX