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money’s capacity to turn morality into a matter of impersonal arithmetic—and by doing so, to justify things that would otherwise seem outrageous or obscene.
David Graeber • Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded
In our view, the key to understanding how societies evolve is to understand factors that determine the costs and rewards of employing violence.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
“cliometrics” or economic history.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
“those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise”—a
Ron Chernow • Alexander Hamilton
THE WORLD OF FINANCE
Erik Banks • Finance: The Basics
The Paper Millionaire, by some Arab-turned-Englishman named Roger Shashoua. He sat
Tom Wolfe • A Man in Full: A Novel
The central relationship that money crystallizes is between lender and borrower.
Niall Ferguson • The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition
(As his predecessor John Pierpont Morgan had said about a banker’s reputation at the Pujo hearings in front of the House Banking and Currency Committee in 1912, “[It] is his most valuable possession; it is the result of years of faith and honorable dealing and, while it may be quickly lost, once lost cannot be restored for a long time, if ever.”)