Preamble
13. Lewis H. Lapham || Holy Dread


Exchange Rates
21. James Buchan || 1997: London
26. Karl Marx || 1844: Paris
27. Aristophanes || 388 BC: Athens
31. Roger Starr || 1976: New York City
31. Marshall McLuhan || 1964: Toronto
32. Arthur Schopenhauer || 1851: Frankfurt
34. Lord Byron || 1822: Pisa
36. Vladimir Nabokov || 1955: New England
37. Hammurabi || c. 1780 BC: Babylon
38. Jean-Paul Sartre || 1943: Paris
38. Peter Abelard || c. 1130: Paris
40. Mark Twain || c. 1850: Mississippi River
41. Adam Smith || 1776: Kirkcaldy
43. John Ruskin || 1860: London
44. William Shakespeare || c. 1608: Venice
46. Jorge Luis Borges || 1949: Buenos Aires
46. Charlemagne || 814: Aix-la-Chapelle
48. Mortimer Neal Thomson || 1859: Savannah
48. Anonymous || c. 1600: China
50. Count Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden || 1987: West Germany
51. Nikolai Gogol || 1842: Russia
52. L. M. Sixel || 2002: Houston
53. Robert Towne || c. 1930: Los Angeles


Earnings
55. Daniel Loeb || 2005: Wall Street
57. Benjamin Franklin || 1748: Philadelphia
57. Lorenzo de' Medici || 1469: Florence
59. W. A. Mozart || 1778: Paris
60. Liu Xu || c. 1930: Peking
61. Ayn Rand || 1957: New York City
64. Kautilya || c. 350 BC: Magadha
65. Geoffrey Chaucer || c. 1390: London
68. Henry Ford || 1922: Detroit
71. Ihara Saikaku || 1688: Osaka
72. Aesop || c. 600 BC: Greece
73. Alexander Hamilton || 1790: Philadelphia
74. John Locke || 1690: London
76. Ralph Ellison || c. 1935: Alabama
78. Johann von Goethe || c. 1520: Holy Roman Empire
82. Fyodor Dostoyevsky || 1866: Roulettenburg
84. Marco Polo || c. 1280: Kanbalu
85. Anonymous || 1678: London
86. Stephen Burroughs || c. 1800: Quebec
87. John Dos Passos || c. 1919: New York City


Liquidity
91. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc || c. 1995: The Bronx
94. Tom Wolfe || 1976: Manhattan
96. James Boswell || 1763: London
97. Alexis de Tocqueville || 1832: America
99. Juvenal || c. 105: Rome
102. Joan Didion || 1973: Holly wood
105. William Thackeray || c. 1763: Prussia
108. George Orwell || 1933: Paris
110. Anton Chekhov || 1887: Russia
113. Charles MacKay || 1719: Paris
117. Edith Wharton || 1913: Central Park
120. John Updike || 1981: Pennsylvania
122. Virginia Woolf || 1918: London
122. The Notorious B.I.G. || 1994: Brooklyn
124. Jane Austen || 1813: Netherfield
125. Seneca || c. 64: Rome
127. Elias Canetti || 1960: London
130. Dorothy Parker || 1941: Fifth Avenue


Expenditures
133. Mark Singer || 1997: Fifth Avenue
135. Duc de Saint-Simon || c. 1715: Versailles
137. Petronius || c. 61: Campania
138. Michael Lewis || c. 1986: Wall Street
139. Henry Flynn || 1824: Zululand
140. Thorstein Veblen || 1899: Chicago
142. J. K. Huysmans || 1884: Fontenay
145. Lord Chesterfield || 1750: London
146. Pliny the Elder || c. 40 BC: Alexandria
147. Upton Sinclair || 1946: San Simeon
151. Dennis Kozlowski || 2001: Sardinia
152. Andrew Carnegie || 1889: Pittsburgh
154. Niccolo Machiavelli || 1516: Florence
155. Suetonius || c. 60: Rome
157. Orson Welles & Herman J. Mankiewicz || c. 1898: New York City


Derivatives
159. James J. Cramer || 2007: New York City
161. Washington Irving || 1837: New York City
163. Jonathan Swift || 1721: London
164. Umberto Eco || 1967: Milan
165. John C. Calhoun || 1836: Washington
166. Loretta Napoleoni || 2000: Germany/Czech Republic
167. John the Apostle || c. 70: Babylon
168. Martin Luther || 1540: Wittenberg
169. George Bernard Shaw || 1905: London
171. Cicero || 70 BC: Rome
173. Thomas More || 1516: Utopia
175. Plutarch || c. 800 BC: Sparta
176. William Jennings Bryan || 1896: Chicago
177. John Maynard Keynes || 1930: Cambridge
178. W. E. B. Du Bois || 1903: Atlanta
180. Sallust || 63 BC: Rome
182. Heinrich Heine || 1841: Paris
183. Sigmund Freud || 1908: Vienna
184. Charles Dickens || 1848: London


Further Remarks
187. Jack Weatherford || Prometheus Unbound
192. Jackson Lears || Fortune's Wheel
200. Tim Parks || Arts Endowment
207. Edward Castronova || Funny Money
211. Aristotle, Edward Gibbon, & Karl Marx || Conversations


What If...?
217. Ian Kershaw || Disaster at Dunkirk: A Nightmare Fantasy