The Purse and the Conscience: An Attempt to Show the Connection Between Economics and Ethics (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The portions of the quoted passages on pages 45 and 147 which are italicised are so empha sised by myself, not by the writers from whom the quotations are made.

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The numbers in parentheses refer to the pages in the text. INTRODUCTORY -- page iT he attention aroused by poverty. Evils intense and extensive resulting from it (i) The specialists who devote themselves to the subject are fully as attentive to the latter as to the former. But the sympathy and interest of the general public is more easily aroused by the former (3) This widely extended wish to do good to the poor founds itself on different conceptions of the facts of the case, and follows various methods (4) These papers endeavour to investigate what the real conditions with which we have to grapple are, and what methods of amelioration can be adopted with security that they are well founded. They deal with the connection between Ethics andE conomics. This subject plainly in the first place includes the observance of Justice in monetary affairs (6) Consideration of the meaning of Justice in this connection. Different conceptions of justice in the distribution of wealth.
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