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

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Our Robber Barons, by Bernhard Gillam, 1882.

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.

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Abandoned British military vehicles on the beach of Dunkirk, France, 1940.

Disaster at Dunkirk: A Nightmare Fantasy

By Ian Kershaw

A fictional reimagining of one of Hitler’s most fateful decisions.

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Map

Perpetual Motion

Tracing the drug trade, the slave trade, and the Silk Road.

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c. 1850 | Mississippi River

Playing the Market

Huck and Jim ponder true wealth. More

1887 | Russia

Running the Numbers

Anton Chekhov’s lottery dreams.More

2001 | Sardinia

Stairway to Heaven

A birthday bash brought to you by Tyco.More

Charts & Graphs

Celebrity Appearance

How much it costs to have a brush with fame.

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Soldier and writer Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon.

Black and white photograph of a young Mark Twain with dark hair.

English novelist, essayist, and critic George Orwell.

Portrait of British poet Lord Byron.

English writer Geoffrey Chaucer.

Black and white image of Greek biographer and writer Plutarch.

Black and white photograph of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud with cigar.

Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.

—Thomas Jefferson

Photo of stone Aristotle statue face

Painted portrait of English philosopher Jeremy Bentham.

Aristotle & Jeremy Bentham

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