Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. PREFACE IX
4. INTRODUCTION The Devil’s Riches: A Modern History of Greed 1
5. CHAPTER ONE Greed and Avarice before Absolutism 13
6. CHAPTER TWO The Confessionalization of an Emotion 54
7. CHAPTER THREE Greed and the Law in the Seventeenth Century 84
8. CHAPTER FOUR Greed, Consumerism, and the State 101
9. CHAPTER FIVE Greed and the Oscillations between Liberalism and Socialism 129
10. CHAPTER SIX Greed and the New Spiritualism 151
11. CHAPTER SEVEN The Psychology and Psychoanalysis of Greed 179
12. Conclusions: Greed and History 203
13. INDEX 207