Devil's Riches

A Modern History of Greed

AvJared Poley

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Del 11 i serien Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-02-22
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:472 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
Antal sidor:226
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781785331268

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Ekonomisk historia inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Jared Poley is Professor of History at Georgia State University. He is author of Decolonization in Germany: Weimar Narratives of Colonial Loss and Foreign Occupation (2005) and a co-editor of the collections Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany (Berghahn, 2012), Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000 (Berghahn, 2016), Kinship, Community, and Self (Berghahn, 2014), and Money in the German Speaking Lands (Berghahn, 2017).

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"...a thought-provoking study of a subject that is too often taken for granted, rather than subjected to critical examination." Financial Times

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Greed and Avarice before AbsolutismChapter 2. The Confessionalization of an EmotionChapter 3. Greed and the Law in the Seventeenth CenturyChapter 4. Greed, Consumerism, and the StateChapter 5. Greed and the Oscillations between Liberalism and SocialismChapter 6. Greed and the New SpiritualismChapter 7. The Psychology and Psychoanalysis of GreedConclusions: Greed and HistoryIndex