Title: Capitalism : money, morals and markets /
Authors: Plender, John,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Capitalism History; Capitalism Moral and ethical aspects; Capitalisme.; Histoire économique.; Ethique.; Mondialisation.; Economie de marché.; Libre-échange.; Capitalism; Capitalism Moral and ethical aspects
Abstract: In this extraordinary book senior Financial Times columnist John Plender highlights and investigates a concern about the moral character of money that pre-dates the industrial revolution by more than two millennia. He explores this paradoxical aspect of the system in a historical context, looking at money, banking, entrepreneurship, art, taxation and other aspects of modern capitalism not only through the eyes of economists and business people, but through the views of philosophers, novelists, poets, artists and divines.
Contents: The root of all evil (or not, as the case may be) -- Animal spirits -- Hijacked by bankers -- Industrial shrinkage, financial excess -- Sophisters, economists and calculators -- Trade and the fatal embrace -- Speculation- the missing shame gene -- The dynamics of debt -- Gold, the 6,000-year-long bubble -- High-minded about art -- Tax and the division of the spoils -- Capitalism, warts and all.