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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.
  • 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.
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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
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    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: 1840 | Reference: 32029i
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    The vice of luxury : economic excess in a consumer age / David Cloutier.

    Cloutier, David, 1972- | Date: [2015]
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