{"id":9933,"date":"2011-05-09T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T15:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=9933"},"modified":"2011-05-09T16:07:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T15:07:43","slug":"the-disposition-to-worship-the-rich-is-the-cause-of-the-corruption-of-our-moral-sentiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/05\/09\/the-disposition-to-worship-the-rich-is-the-cause-of-the-corruption-of-our-moral-sentiments\/","title":{"rendered":"The disposition to worship the rich is the cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How come this chap was so wise so long ago?:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful and\u2026neglect persons of poor and mean condition\u2026is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It's Adam Smith, of course, From The Theory of Moral Sentiments.<\/p>\n<p>Quoted in Tony Judt, '<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardianbookshop.co.uk\/BerteShopWeb\/viewProduct.do?ISBN=9781846143595\" target=\"_blank\">Ill Fares the Land<\/a>'. Strongly\u00a0recommended.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How come this chap was so wise so long ago?: \u201cThe disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful and\u2026neglect persons<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/05\/09\/the-disposition-to-worship-the-rich-is-the-cause-of-the-corruption-of-our-moral-sentiments\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}