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Rent sharks, financial speculators, businesses running on exploitative practices – all of them are motivated by greed. They want to make a profit, regardless of the cost. But it’s not only the “fat cats” that always want more. Everyone has the capacity for the deadly sin of avarice. People in the Global North live at the expense of the population in the Global South. We know this and yet we carry on. Why? Because we can. Because it’s normal for us to have plenty and to continually want more. This book shines a light on our greed: where it comes from, where we encounter it, what it does to us and how we can overcome it – if we want to at all ...
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Author Biography
Barbara Streidl is a journalist, writer and musician. She works for the broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk and for the publisher Süddeutscher Verlag.
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Hirzel Verlag
- Publication Date March 2022
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783777629667
- Publication Country or regionGermany
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 12 EUR
- Pages112
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleGier
- Original Language AuthorsBarbara Streidl
- Edition1st Edition
- Copyright Year2022
- Dimensions13,0x19,0 cm
- Illustration5 coloured illiustrations
- SeriesTodsünden-Reihe (Deathly Sins Series)
- Series Part1
