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Wealth--Moral and ethical aspects
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A street scene with building work going on: an old man holds his cap out to a well-dressed man who refuses to help him. Lithograph by Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé.
Bellangé, H. (Hippolyte), 1800-1866.Date: [1824]Reference: 32192i- Books
Famine, affluence, and morality / Peter Singer.
Singer, Peter, 1946-Date: [2016]
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A poor family starves in the centre of Paris: a workman brings them a bowl of soup, a banker for a "Philanthropic bank" ignores them, public funds are spent on a new stock exchange, and books are advertised advocating self-help. Lithograph by Villain after N.-T. Charlet, 1840.
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.Date: 1840Reference: 32029i- Books
The vice of luxury : economic excess in a consumer age / David Cloutier.
Cloutier, David, 1972-Date: [2015]