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Tables of Contents for Greed
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of illustrations
vii
Acknowledgments
viii
Frontispiece
x
Introduction
1
11
What do We Mean by Greed?
12
23
Semantics
13
1
Gut Feelings
14
5
Moral mechanisms
19
3
Finding words: needs, wants, and deserts
22
8
Measuring greed
30
5
Denials and Apologies
Beastly Passions and Legitimate Desires
35
23
Dignifying the mind
37
11
Obliterating feelings
48
4
Inventing rational self-interest
52
6
Disciplining Greed
58
23
Greed and the psyche
59
2
Greed and culture
61
5
Greed and the gene
66
5
Disembodiment
71
10
Scholars and Idiots
81
30
Common sense
82
7
Exotic greed
89
5
Witchcraft
94
10
In defense of idiocy
104
7
How Greed Grows
Feeling and Meaning
111
29
Growing bodies
112
3
Images of growth
115
3
Meaningful growth
118
11
Growth and the meanings of greed
129
11
Growth and History
140
17
Need and necessity
141
5
Instants, lives, and epochs
146
3
Why we wanted more
149
8
Three Bio-histories
The Gluttonous Peasant
157
18
Peasants and growth
159
3
Hunger, envy, and inertia
162
2
Hunger and growth
164
4
History and the mobile peasant
168
7
The Avaricious Pensioner
175
16
The golden age
177
3
The old-age crisis
180
3
Generation war?
183
2
Misunderstanding growth
185
6
The Venal Professional
191
24
The rise of the salariat
192
1
Salary versus wage
193
8
Growth and increments
201
3
The decline of the salariat
204
3
``Executive overcompensation''
207
8
Corporate Greed
215
8
Notes
223
22
References
245
23
Index
268
10
Tailpiece
278