Greed: Gut Feelings, Growth, and History Paperback - 2001
by John Wiley & Sons
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- Title Greed: Gut Feelings, Growth, and History
- Author John Wiley & Sons
- Binding Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge, UK
- Date April 1, 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 9780745626062
- ISBN 9780745626062 / 0745626068
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.52 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 178
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From the rear cover
This lively new book is a wide-ranging inquiry into how greed works in our lives and in the world at large. Western philosophy has intellectualized human passions, explaining and justifying our expansive desires as 'rational self-interest'. However, an examination of the visceral power of greed tells us something about the apathy of modern theory. It shows us how confused we have become about the meanings of growth, creating false and morally hazardous distinctions between biology on the one hand, and history on the other. With greed as a guide, this book considers how the integrity of these meanings may be restored.
This remarkable book will be of interest to anyone concerned about the morality of economic behavior in the modern world. It will be an important text for students in the social sciences, especially in
anthropology, sociology, development studies, and business studies.