The devil's riches : a modern history of greed / / Jared Poley

• Autore: Poley Jared <1970->
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.9402
• Soggetto topico: Avarice - History
• Classificazione: NW 2850
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro; Contents; Preface; Introduction - The Devil's Riches: A Modern History of Greed; Chapter 1 - Greed and Avarice before Absolutism; Chapter 2 - The Confessionalization of an Emotion; Chapter 3 - Greed and the Law in the Seventeenth Century; Chapter 4 - Greed, Consumerism, and the State; Chapter 5 - Greed and the Oscillations between Liberalism and Socialism; Chapter 6 - Greed and the New Spiritualism; Chapter 7 - The Psychology and Psychoanalysis of Greed; Conclusions: Greed and History; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The devil's riches
• ISBN: 1-78533-127-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798317303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Spektrum (New York, N.Y.) ; ; Volume 11.