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Voices In Time

1889 | Pittsburgh

The Gospel According to Andrew Carnegie

“The man who dies...rich dies disgraced.”More

Voices In Time

1860 | London

Blessed Are the Poor

The art of becoming rich.More

Voices In Time

1905 | London

Major Barbara Meets Her Maker

George Bernard Shaw eradicates poverty.More

Voices In Time

1848 | London

For Everything Else There’s MasterCard

Charles Dickens on what money can’t buy.More

Voices In Time

1824 | Zululand

Designer Dress

Work attire for a Zulu king.More

Voices In Time

1750 | London

Allowances

The high cost of low living.More

Voices In Time

1748 | Philadelphia

Benjamin Franklin’s Bottom Line

Money, more or less, is always welcome.More

Voices In Time

1776 | Kirkcaldy

Toil and Trouble

Adam Smith sets the price. More

Voices In Time

1913 | Central Park

Tacking East

Edith Wharton seeks out the best.More

Voices In Time

1903 | Atlanta

The New South

W.E.B. Du Bois’ critique of American materialism.More

Voices In Time

1763 | London

Sound Advice

Samuel Johnson on the benefits of being rich.More

Voices In Time

1813 | Netherfield

Jane Austen Conceives a Marriage

Love, money, and Mr. Darcy.More

Voices In Time

1836 | Washington, DC

Antebellum Kapital

John C. Calhoun calls out the hypocrisy of the North.More

Voices In Time

1819 | New York City

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

Washington Irving bursts a speculative bubble.More

Voices In Time

c. 1850 | Mississippi River

Playing the Market

Huck and Jim ponder true wealth. More

Voices In Time

1922 | Detroit

Henry Ford on the Road to Riches

The formation of the Ford Motor Company.More

Voices In Time

1908 | Vienna

Brown Gold

Freud on the obvious connection between money and defecation.More

Voices In Time

1918 | London

Means to an End

Virginia Woolf settles into a room of her own.More

Voices In Time

1887 | Russia

Running the Numbers

Anton Chekhov’s lottery dreams.More

Voices In Time

1896 | Chicago

INRI

“You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!”More

Voices In Time

1841 | Paris

Point of Order

“Money is the god of our times, and Rothschild is his prophet.”More

Voices In Time

c. 1763 | Prussia

The Work of a Gentleman

Barry Lyndon and the occupational hazards of professional players.More

Voices In Time

1899 | Chicago

A Cheap Coat Makes a Cheap Man

Thorstein Veblen explains honorific waste.More

Voices In Time

1516 | Utopia

A Galaxy Far, Far Away

Thomas More on the persistent power of Utopia.More

Voices In Time

1790 | Philadelphia

Livestock

Making gold and silver productive.More

Voices In Time

c. 70 | Babylon

Sending for the Fires of Heaven

Babylon suffers the wrath of God.More

Voices In Time

2001 | Sardinia

Stairway to Heaven

A birthday bash brought to you by Tyco.More

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