The Purse and the Conscience

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Excerpt from The Purse and the Conscience: An Attempt to Show the Connection Between Economics and Ethics The attention aroused by poverty. Evils intense and extensive resulting from it (1) - 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 and Economics. 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.