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The Touch of Midas: Money, Markets, and Morality

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Edward Skidelsky
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Money has always inspired obsession, both in those who amass it and in those who think about it. “Man will never be able to know what money is any more than he will be able to know what God is,” wrote the French financier Marcel Labordère to his friend John Maynard Keynes. The analogy is apt. Money, like God, injects infinity into human desires. To love it is to embark on a journey without end.

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Ethics & International Affairs , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , Winter 2013 , pp. 449 - 457
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 2013 

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NOTES

1 Newey, Glen, “You have £2000, I have a kidney,” London Review of Books 34, no. 12 (June 21, 2012), p. 10.Google Scholar

2 Quoted in Whipple, Thomas King, Spokesmen (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1963), p. 250.Google Scholar