20th CenturySocial Science

Tawney: The Acquisitive Society

A historian argues that an economy should serve purposes beyond getting; the lesson gives the replies too.

✎ Being written
Volume
57 of the 1990 set
Author
R. H. Tawney (1880–1962)
Work
The Acquisitive Society 1920

Ideas: Wealth, money and markets How societies work Duty and conscience

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Being written

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Builds on

Nothing before it: a good place to start.

Leads to

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