From Gordon Gekko to David Hume
by
Stewart Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In a riveting scene from the film Wall Street, Gordon Gekko proclaims that “greed is good.” The great philosopher David Hume, on the other hand, describes greed as the most destructive of the vices. The recent banking debacle and continuing uproar about executive bonus pay has placed the controversial...