The morality of money : an exploration in analytic philosophy / Adrian Walsh and Tony Lynch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walsh, Adrian J.

Contributor:

Lynch, Tony, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money--Moral and ethical aspects.

Money.

Physical Description:

viii, 255 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Contents:

2 Money, Commerce and Moral Theory 19

3 The Profit-Motive and Morality 65

4 Usury and the Ethics of Interest-Taking 91

5 The Morality of Pricing: Just Prices and Moral Traders 119

6 Money, Commodification and the Corrosion of Value: An Examination of the Sacred and Intrinsic Value 145

7 Money-Measurement as the Moral Problem 167

8 The Charge of 'Economic Moralism': Might the Invisible Hand Eliminate the Need for a Morality of Money? 188.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-247) and index.

ISBN:

0230535437

9780230535435

OCLC:

225852382