Preamble Holy Dread By Lewis H. Lapham The history of the United States is synonymous with the dream of riches, but the question as to whether money is mortal or immortal has never been resolved. More
Essay Prometheus Unbound By Jack Weatherford From the invention of coinage to the present day, each technological innovation in currency has further expanded money’s role in our lives. More
Voices In Time 1748 | Philadelphia Benjamin Franklin’s Bottom Line Money, more or less, is always welcome.More
Voices In Time 1848 | London For Everything Else There’s MasterCard Charles Dickens on what money can’t buy.More
Voices In Time 1908 | Vienna Brown Gold Freud on the obvious connection between money and defecation.More
Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York. —Ambrose Bierce, 1911
