TY  - BOOK
AU  - Poley,Jared
TI  - The Devil's Riches: A Modern History of Greed 
T2  - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
SN  - 9781785331268
AV  - BJ1535.A8 P65 2017
U1  - 178 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Avarice
KW  - History
KW  - HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History (General)
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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 unjust world. Focusing specifically on the interrelated themes of religion, economics, and health—each of which sought to study and channel the power of financial desire—Jared Poley shows how evolving ideas about greed became formative elements of the modern experience
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785331275?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785331275
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ER  -