Abstract
Greed, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is the ‘inordinate or insatiate longing, especially for wealth’.1 Greed is also personal. It is the force that drives people to (attempt to) endlessly accumulate wealth in all its forms. And because people cannot achieve the same level of success in the game of greed, it is also a driver that separates people within and between societies. This is an aspect of modern economic life that must not be overlooked and will be at the very heart of the analysis in this chapter.
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Haseler, S., Meyer, H. (2009). Greed and the Super-Rich. In: Brassey, A., Barber, S. (eds) Greed. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230246157_3
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