Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1750. National Gallery, London.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1750. National Gallery, London.

About Money

Volume 1, Number 2 | spring 2008

Holy Dread

Lewis H. Lapham

Fortune’s Wheel

Jackson Lears

Prometheus Unbound

Jack Weatherford

Funny Money

Edward Castronova

Arts Endowment

Tim Parks

Map

Miscellany

Voices In Time

Means to an End

1918 | London

Allowances

1750 | London

Antebellum Kapital

1836 | Washington, DC

Stairway to Heaven

2001 | Sardinia

The New South

1903 | Atlanta

Livestock

1790 | Philadelphia

INRI

1896 | Chicago

Tacking East

1913 | Central Park

Point of Order

1841 | Paris

A Galaxy Far, Far Away

1516 | Utopia

Toil and Trouble

1776 | Kirkcaldy

Playing the Market

c. 1850 | Mississippi River

Designer Dress

1824 | Zululand

Benjamin Franklin’s Bottom Line

1748 | Philadelphia

The Work of a Gentleman

c. 1763 | Prussia

Sound Advice

1763 | London

Blessed Are the Poor

1860 | London

Running the Numbers

1887 | Russia

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

1819 | New York City

Brown Gold

1908 | Vienna

Charts and Graphs

Contributors

Conversations

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