Epilogue

Abstract

We began this book with a series of cases in which we might be — and many of us undoubtedly are — concerned about the role that money played therein. We raised questions about the appropriateness of such practices as bridal registers, cost—benefit analysis and the payment of honoraria; we asked whether there might be instances where the prices charged for goods and for money itself should be subject to moral constraint. Our puzzle was whether such concerns and worries had anything substantial to them, or if they were simply irrational or misguided sentimentalism. After all, charges of sentimentalism and the like are the kinds of reactions we are likely to find from those schooled in much modern economic orthodoxy.