Capitalism
Subtitle: money, morals and markets
By: John Plender
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781849548687
Subjects: Capitalism; History; Moral and ethical aspects
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.