Table of Contents

2008 Spring

About Money

Introductory

• Holy Dread: by Lewis H. Lapham

Voices in Time

Exchange Rates

• James Buchan Recalls His Vision in the Desert: 1997 / London
• Karl Marx Drafts a Social Contract: 1844 / Paris
• Aristophanes Pays His Respects to the Majesty of Cash: 388 BC / Athens
• Roger Starr Defends the Dollar: 1976 / New York City
• Lingua Franca: 1964 / Toronto
• Alpha and Omega: 1851 / Frankfurt
• Lord Byron Draws the Distinction Between Honey and Wax: 1822 / Pisa
• Vladimir Nabokov Pays the Piper: 1955 / New England
• Balancing Accounts: 1780 BC / Babylon
• Jean-Paul Sartre Changes Subject into Object: 1943 / Paris
• Terms of Endearment: c. 1130 / Paris
• Playing the Market: c. 1850 / Mississippi River
• Adam Smith Sets the Price for Toil and Trouble: 1776 / Kirkcaldy
• Blessed Are the Poor: 1860 / London
• Trade Agreement: c. 1608 / Venice
• Blessed Souls: 1949 / Buenos Aires
• Protective Tariffs: 814 / Aix-la-Chapelle
• Gray example alt: 1651 / Paris
• Clearance Sale: 1859 / Savannah
• Deed of Sale: c. 1600 / China
• Reparations: 1987 / West Germany
• Nikolai Gogol's Price Points: 1842 / Russia
• Low Risk, High Yield: 2002 / Houston
• Long-Term Investment: c. 1930 / Los Angeles

Earnings

• Daniel Loeb Suffers a Year-End Loss: 2005 / Wall Street
• Benjamin Franklin’s Bottom Line: 1748 / Philadelphia
• Special Interest: 1469 / Florence
• Invoice: 1778 / Paris
• Street Fair: c. 1930 / Peking
• Ayn Rand Endorses Piracy: 1957 / New York City
• Competitive Edge: c. 350 BC / Magadha
• Geoffrey Chaucer Attends a Sales Pitch: c. 1390 / London
• Henry Ford on the Road to Riches: 1922 / Detroit
• Iharu Saikaku Tells a Cautionary Tale: 1688 / Osaka
• Hostile Takeovers: c. 600 BC / Greece
• Livestock: 1790 / Philadelphia
• John Locke Gathers Acorns: 1690 / London
• Blood Money: c. 1935 / Alabama
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Resolves a Financial Crisis: c. 1520 / Holy Roman Empire
• Fyodor Dostoevsky Lets It Ride: 1866 / Roulettenburg
• Money in Trees: c. 1280 / Kanbalu
• Cutting Corners: 1678 / London
• Confessions of a Counterfeiter: c. 1800 / Quebec
• John Dos Passos Probates the Estate of J. P. Morgan: c. 1919 / New York City

Liquidity

• Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Works a Budget: c. 1995 / The Bronx
• Tom Wolfe Adds Up the Score: 1976 / Manhattan
• Sound Advice: 1763 / London
• Alexis de Tocqueville Observes a Host of Modest Fortunes: 1832 / America
• Juvenal Lives Beyond His Means: c. 105 / Rome
• Joan Didion Breaks Even: 1973 / Hollywood
• Barry Lyndon Engages in the Work of a Gentleman: c. 1763 / Prussia
• George Orwell Does the Math: 1933 / Paris
• Anton Chekhov Runs the Numbers: 1887 / Russia
• John Law's Irrational Exuberance: 1719 / Paris
• Undine Spragg Tacks East: 1913 / Central Park
• Rabbit Angstrom Corners a Market in Gold: 1981 / Pennsylvania
• Means to an End: 1918 / London
• Making It: 1994 / Brooklyn
• Jane Austen Conceives a Marriage: 1813 / Netherfield
• Seneca Practices the Simple Life: c. 64 / Rome
• Elias Canetti Depreciates Two Currencies: 1960 / London
• Window Shopping: 1941 / Fifth Avenue

Expenditures

• Up There with Donald Trump: 1997 / Fifth Avenue
• Louis XIV Redecorates a Swamp: c. 1715 / Versailles
• Live Thrushes: c. 61 / Campania
• The Cup Runneth Over: c. 1986 / Wall Street
• Designer Dress: 1824 / Zululand
• A Cheap Coat Makes a Cheap Man: 1899 / Chicago
• J.-K. Huysmans Bejewels His Tortoise: 1884 / Fortenay
• Allowances: 1750 / London
• Cleopatra's Pearls: c. 40 BC / Alexandria
• William Randolph Hearst at Ease in Zion: 1946 / San Simeon
• Stairway to Heaven: 2001 / Sardinia
• The Gospel According to Andrew Carnegie: 1889 / Pittsburgh
• Realpolitik: 1516 / Florence
• Nero's Golden House: c. 60 / Rome
• Philanthropy: c. 1898 / New York City

Derivatives

• James J. Cramer Waves Goodbye: 2007 / New York City
• Washington Irving Beholds the Stuff that Dreams Are Made Of: 1837 / New York City
• Lost at Sea: 1721 / London
• Book Review: 1967 / Milan
• Antebellum Kapital: 1836 / Washington, D.C.
• Love in the Afternoon: 2000 / German/Czech Border
• John the Apostle Sends for the Fires of Heaven: c. 70 / Babylon
• Fatwa: 1540 / Wittenberg
• Major Barbara Meets Her Maker: 1905 / London
• Cicero Brings an Indictment: 70 BC / Rome
• A Galaxy Far, Far Away: 1516 / Utopia
• Illiquid Assets: c. 800 BC / Sparta
• INRI: 1896 / Chicago
• John Maynard Keynes Forsees a Fatal Change: 1930 / Cambridge
• The New South: 1903 / Atlanta
• Rise and Fall: 63 BC / Rome
• Point of Order: 1841 / Paris
• Brown Gold: 1908 / Vienna
• For Everything Else There’s MasterCard: 1848 / London

Departments

Essays

• Prometheus Unbound: by Jack Weatherford
• Funny Money: by Edward Castronova
• Arts Endowment: by Tim Parks
• Fortune’s Wheel: by Jackson Lears

Conversations

• Aristotle & Jeremy Bentham:

Letters

What If...?

• Disaster at Dunkirk: A Nightmare Fantasy: by Ian Kershaw

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