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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1790 | Philadelphia

Livestock

Making gold and silver productive.More

1750 | London

Allowances

The high cost of low living.More

1913 | Central Park

Tacking East

Edith Wharton seeks out the best.More

Charts & Graphs

Shakespeare’s Shillings

The Bard settles his bill.

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Classical engraving of Aristophanes with a long beard.

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

Photograph of American writer Ralph Ellison.

American novelist John Dos Passos.

Photograph of Vladimir Nabokov

Engraving of Pliny the Elder.

Engraving of Scottish economist Adam Smith.

Only the little people pay taxes.

—Leona Helmsley, 1989

Aristotle & Jeremy Bentham

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