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Greed Is Good: A 300-Year History of a Dangerous Idea

IDEAS Posted: April 8, 2014 12:50 am

“We sometimes forget that the pursuit of commercial self-interest was largely reviled until just a few centuries ago. ‘A man who is a merchant can seldom if ever please God,’ St. Jerome said … It was not until the mischievous moralist Bernard Mandeville that someone attempted to gloss greed as anything other than a shameful motive.”

IDEAS Published: 04.07.14

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 04.07.14

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