Yes, it’s a grand hope, but I am not the first to hold it. It was fundamental to the philosophy of the Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed and many of the other great historical characters. More surprisingly, it was fundamental to David Hume, whose Wealth of Nations is often seen as the driver of today’s greed creed. Yes, it was, but only because so many people (economists especially) overlook his companion volume Theory of Moral Sentiments (actually published first), in which he argues that the pur...
