Greed

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction to Greed

   • Alexis Brassey, Stephen Barber

   Pages 1-4

3. Greed and the Market

   • John Meadowcroft

   Pages 5-20

4. Greed and the Super-Rich

   • Stephen Haseler, Henning Meyer

   Pages 21-41

5. Greed or Competitive Firms?

   • Jocelyn Pixley

   Pages 42-63

6. Back to the Future: Teaching the Greed Business

   • Ken Starkey, Cary Cooper

   Pages 64-79

7. The Disputable Truth of Economic Greed

   • Stephen Barber

   Pages 80-93

8. What Drives Man Toward Greed?

   • Alexis Brassey

   Pages 94-111

9. Greed in Jewish Lore

   • Jeremy Rosen

   Pages 112-122

10. Condemning Greed? Catholic Perspectives

    • Patrick Riordan

    Pages 123-142

11. Working with Greed: The Challenge of Inequalities

    • Marco Roncarati

    Pages 143-156

12. Sufficiency not Greed: ‘Consume Less, Share More, Enjoy Life’

    • Derek Wall

    Pages 157-169

13. The Narrative of Consumption: Greed and Literature

    • Linda Freedman

    Pages 170-187

14. Back Matter

    Pages 188-191

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For all of the technical explanations for meltdown in the financial markets during the banking crisis, the most readily accepted and almost universal explanation is the single word 'greed'. This is a subject which can at once be seen as the disease at the heart of society and the motivating force behind the progress of mankind.

• banking
• business
• economics

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• University of London, UK

  Alexis Brassey

• London South Bank University, UK

  Stephen Barber

ALEX BRASSEY is completing a PhD in Psychology at the University of London, UK. He is also Managing Director of Cramer Pelmont Solicitors, Senior Partner of The Schools Enterprise Partnership and Managing Director of Liverpool Residential. He formerly worked for 10 years in the City of London as Assistant Vice-President of Citibank, Director of Lehman Brothers and Head of Yen trading at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. He is a qualified fund manager, teacher and holds a BSc (Hons) in Finance and Economics from Manchester University, and an MA in Philosophy from Kings College London.

STEPHEN BARBER is Senior Lecturer at London South Bank University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute, London Metropolitan University. He has spent fifteen years working in the City of London's financial industry and is a frequent contributor to and commentator in the financial press, radio and TV. He has published three previous books on politics, policy and political economy.

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