The Oxford Book of Money

Book Overview

Money. Rhino. The long green. It is "the most important thing in the world" (George Bernard Shaw). It is "the alienated essence of man's work and existence" (Karl Marx). It is a medium of exchange, a measure of value, a standard of deferred payment. It is "better than poverty, if only for financial reasons" (Woody Allen).
Few things occupy as central a place in our lives as money, and few provoke such intense and varied response. Now in an entertaining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192825100
• ISBN13: 9780192825100
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.8"