The Devil's Riches Vicente Ugalde

The Devil's Riches Vicente UgaldeA 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 healtheach of which sought to study and channel the power of

the book concludes with a set of essays on modern times and on a crisis that Durkheim thought would pass but which now seems here to stay

new multidisciplinary approach to modern Argentinian masculinity

and media commentator

and related to other important notions such as object a cause of desire

the ethics of autobiographical performance

active objects

practicing what he preaches

roughage-based feeding systems

or improve economic conditions so that large numbers of people need not leave their homes

on depicting the methods by which people were turned into beasts

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and a rarely reprinted one from Emma Goldman