The Acquisitive Society

ISBN: 9781332796397 出版年：2016 页码：197 Richard Henry Tawney Forgotten Books

This is probably Tawney’s most provocative and influential book. Published in 1920, The Acquisitive Society held that the acquisitiveness of a capitalist society was a morally wrong motivating principle. He mentioned in his book that acquisitiveness had and will always corrupt both the rich and the poor. He argued that in capitalist societies work is deprived of its inherent value and thus becomes drudgery, for it is looked at solely as a means to exploit the workers for monetary gains of certain individuals within the system or organisation.