The devil's riches : a modern history of greed /
Poley, Jared,1970-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A modern history of greed: religion, economics, health -- Greed and avarice before absolutism -- The confessionalization of an emotion -- Greed and the law in the seventeenth century -- Greed, consumerism, and the state -- Greed and the oscillations between liberalism and socialism -- Greed and the new spiritualism -- The psychology and psychoanalysis of greed -- Greed and history.
Avarice