Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth.”
- Source
- The Gospel of Wealth
- Date
- 1889
Meaning of “The problem of our age is the proper…”
Carnegie frames wealth not only as possession but as an administrative responsibility, making the use of accumulated resources the central moral question of his essay.
Where does it come from?
The Gospel of Wealth, first sentence of the 1889 essay “Wealth.” Carnegie’s position is a historical normative argument about concentrated wealth, not a neutral description of modern economics.
