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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Apotheosis of Cosimo de' Medici the Elder, by Anton Domenico Gabbiani, c. 1698.

Arts Endowment

By Tim Parks

Banking, metaphysics, and art in fifteenth-century Florence.

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Map

Perpetual Motion

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

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1905 | London

Major Barbara Meets Her Maker

George Bernard Shaw eradicates poverty.More

c. 1850 | Mississippi River

Playing the Market

Huck and Jim ponder true wealth. More

2001 | Sardinia

Stairway to Heaven

A birthday bash brought to you by Tyco.More

Charts & Graphs

The Price of Life

What it costs to get a new organ.

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Roman historian Sallust.

Black and white photograph of English writer Virginia Woolf.

Black and white photograph of a young Marshall McLuhan with a think mustache.

Photograph of English novelist Charles Dickens.

Photograph of American writer Ralph Ellison.

Hans Holbein portrait of Sir Thomas More.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

—Samuel Johnson, 1776

Photo of stone Aristotle statue face

Painted portrait of English philosopher Jeremy Bentham.

Aristotle & Jeremy Bentham

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