lucrepath

lucrepath
(LOO.cur.path)
n.
A person who is pathologically driven to make money. [Blend of lucre and psychopath.]
Example Citations:
Universities are a fruitful source of neologisms — I once had a couple of philosopher colleagues who coined the word "lucrepath" for an individual consumed by the desire for money — so I decided to look up "disinvestment."
—Frank Bongiorno, " The writing on the wall: http://inside.org.au/the-writing-on-the-wall-2/," Inside Story, March 18, 2010
An act of killing which aimed directly at achieving the technical goal of military success abstracted from the good of citizen-in-state-among-other-states would therefore not be an act of virtue but of vice. It is a disordered act, even if not that of a 'lucrepath'.
—Patrick Giddy, "Character and professionalism in the context of developing countries — the example of mercenaries," Ethics and Economics - Volume 4 Number 2, July 1, 2006
Earliest Citation:
The avarice-only reading is not the only way of characterising the profit-motive, and there are some positive grounds for thinking the benefits of profit pursuit are better attributed to the "lucrephile", and not the avarice-only "lucrepath".
—Tony Lynch and Adrian Walsh, " The Mandevillean Conceit and the Profit-motive: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=139687," Philosophy - Volume 78 Issue 1, January 1, 2003
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