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Money Changes Everything

by Lawrence Weinstein

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Available November 2013
Money Changes Everything

A Bedford Spotlight Reader

First Edition ©2014

ISBN-10: 1-4576-2855-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-4576-2855-9
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1. Can We Buy Happiness?

David G. Myers, The Funds, Friends, and Faith of Happy People

The Roper Center, The Good Life

Charles Murray, What’s So Bad About Being Poor?

Barbara Ehrenreich, Serving in Florida

Rebecca Curtis, Twenty Grand

Juliet Schor, Spending Becomes You

MasterCard, Priceless

Elizabeth Warren, The Vanishing Middle Class

Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Thomas A. Pyszczynski, Lethal Consumption: Death-Denying Materialism

2. How Does Money Shape Relationships?

Melanie Scheller, On the Meaning of Plumbing and Poverty

Norman Rockwell, New Kids in the Neighborhood

David Amsden, What’s a Little Money Between Friends?

Jill M. Sundie and Colleagues, Peacocks, Porsches, and Thorstein Veblen: Conspicuous Consumption as a Sexual Signaling System

Mary Loftus, Till Debt Do Us Part

Carey Goldberg, Shaken Baby Cases on the Increase

Mary Kay Foundation , Survey of Shelters for Women

Meera Nair, My Inheritance

3. Is Money To Blame for Unethical Conduct?

Horatio Alger, Excerpt from Ragged Dick

Clarence Darrow, Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail

David Callahan, Cheating in a Bottom-line Economy

Mark Dowie, Pinto Madness

Milton Friedman, The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits

Occupy Wall Street, You Can’t Evict an Idea Whose Time Has Come

Arianna Huffington, CSI USA: Who Killed the American Dream?

Bradley Smith, Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform

Jeff Jacoby, A Deadly Organ Donor System

4. Can Huge Differences in Wealth Be Justified?

Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson

Michael Powell, Wealth, Race and the Great Recession

Briallen Hopper and Johanna Hopper, Should Working-Class People Get B.A.’s and Ph.D.’s?

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Income Gains at the Top

Arthur C. Brooks, Inequality and (Un)happiness in America

Georges de la Tour, The Fortune Teller

Diego Rivera, The Night of the Rich and The First Tractor

Warren Buffett, Stop Coddling the Super-Rich

Maimonides, Mishneh Torah

Muhammad Yunus, from Banker to the Poor

Peter Singer, Rich and Poor

5. Has Money Blinded Us to Higher Values?

Parade Magazine, What People Earn

Ann Crittenden, from The Price of Motherhood

Slate Magazine, Gender Income Inequality by State and County

Michael Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy: Military Service

Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dollar Sign

Murray Sperber, College Sports, Inc.

Mark Slouka, Quitting the Paint Factory

David Van Biema and Jeff Chu, Does God Want You to Be Rich?

Quentin Massys, The Banker and His Wife

E.F. Schumacher, Buddhist Economics

Sundry Authors, Has the Pursuit of Money Become a Religion?

 

 

 

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