The Money Question
Author: William Augustus Berkey
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-06-24
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 3385525365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1876.
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The Vulgar Question of Money
Author: Elsie B. Michie
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2011-09-15
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1421402327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is a familiar story line in nineteenth-century English novels: a hero must choose between money and love, between the wealthy, materialistic, status-conscious woman who could enhance his social position and the poorer, altruistic, independent-minded woman whom he loves. Elsie B. Michie explains what this common marriage plot reveals about changing reactions to money in British culture. It was in the novel that writers found space to articulate the anxieties surrounding money that developed along with the rise of capitalism in nineteenth-century England. Michie focuses in particular on the character of the wealthy heiress and how she, unlike her male counterpart, represents the tensions in British society between the desire for wealth and advancement and the fear that economic development would blur the traditional boundaries of social classes. Michie explores how novelists of the period captured with particular vividness England’s ambivalent emotional responses to its own financial successes and engaged questions identical to those raised by political economists and moral philosophers. Each chapter reads a novelist alongside a contemporary thinker, tracing the development of capitalism in Britain: Jane Austen and Adam Smith and the rise of commercial society, Frances Trollope and Thomas Robert Malthus and industrialism, Anthony Trollope and Walter Bagehot and the political influence of money, Margaret Oliphant and John Stuart Mill and professionalism and managerial capitalism, and Henry James and Georg Simmel and the shift of economic dominance from England to America. Even the great romantic novels of the nineteenth century cannot disentangle themselves from the vulgar question of money. Michie’s fresh reading of the marriage plot, and the choice between two women at its heart, shows it to be as much about politics and economics as it is about personal choice.
What Money Can't Buy
Author: Michael J. Sandel
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2012-04-24
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1429942584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn What Money Can't Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society. Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In his New York Times bestseller What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes up one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? Over recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In Justice, an international bestseller, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes a debate that's been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?
The Money Question
Author: John Percival Jones
Publisher:
Published: 1894
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handy Personal Finance Answer Book
Author: Paul A Tucci
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1578593891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPersonal Financial Planning and Money Management Insights, Advice, and Guidance. An up-to-date financial reference book for everyone! Tips, practical advice, useful worksheets, checklists, and tables guide you to a better understanding of your financial position and put you on your way to achieving personal financial goals and security. The Handy Personal Finance Answer Book offers facts for everyday life to help you save money and manage your financial life. By avoiding financial jargon, this informative tome provides financial lessons in a fun, approachable way. With answers to more than 1,000 questions on the history and institutions of finance, how to make wise decisions about personal financial issues, and common mistakes people make when managing money, this fact-filled book offers facts for everyday life that help you build a more secure future for you and your family. Questions range from simple to complex, including ... What are some basic steps to becoming financially successful? How do I balance my checkbook? What are some of the biggest mistakes that individual investors make? Why is attaining financial goals easier than we think? How much should I save for retirement? What are seven things to consider before investing? Who said, “A penny saved is a penny earned”? How can I save money on my home owner’s insurance? How do I check the accuracy of my medical bills? What are some notable tax deductions? How many undergraduates receive financial aid to attend university or colleges in America? What are some typical family budget categories? What is the concept of “paying yourself first”? How many credit cards should I have? Are debit cards a better way to go? And many, many more! Also featured are useful worksheets, checklists, and tables that guide the reader to a better understanding of his or her own financial position and on their way to achieving their personal financial goals. A bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. The Handy Personal Finance Answer Book takes the mystery out of money matters.
Face Value
Author: Michael O'Malley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-05-14
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0226629392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe cultural historian and author of Keep Watching analyses American ideas about race, money, identity, and their surprising connections through history. From colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and of money. Is it a symbol of the value of human work and creativity, or a symbol of some natural, intrinsic value? In Face Value, Michael O’Malley provides a penetrating historical analysis of American thinking about money and the ways that this ambivalence intertwines with race. Like race, money is bound up in questions of identity and worth, each a kind of shorthand for the different values of two similar things. O’Malley illuminates how these two socially constructed hierarchies are deeply rooted in American anxieties about authenticity and difference. In this compelling work of cultural history, O’Malley interprets a wide array of historical sources to evaluate competing ideas about monetary value and social distinctions. More than just a history, Face Value offers a new way of thinking about the present culture of coded racism, gold fetishism, and economic uncertainty. “This is a ‘big idea’ book that no one but Michael O’Malley could even have thought of—much less pulled off with such nuance and clarity.”—Scott A. Sandage, author of Born Losers
This Might Be a Dumb Question But... How Does Money Work?
Author: Joe Fazio
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-05-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781544871998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho wants to know how money works? That's not a dumb question. The real question is, who needs to know how money works? For both questions, it's the same answer ... everybody.When it comes to money, most people think the answer is that they just need more of it. Sadly, that is not the answer. If you learn how money works, you will know how to get more money, keep more money, and make money work for you. What you really need to know is how money works ... then you will know to how to have more of it. If you think that everyone has more money or seems to know more about it than you do, this is not true. Most people don't understand how money works, and most have no more than you do. There are all kinds of government-produced statistics to prove it. Because people don't understand it, they don't save money for retirement (or start early enough), or have enough for a down payment on a home, or to build a nest egg. It's why they spend too much or become payment buyers. It's also the reason most people don't talk about it. They don't want others to know how little they know. Worse yet, they don't want you to know how little they really have. Money is a big source of stress, a cause of divorce, a cause of business failures, a cause for lost friendships, and the last thing anyone will admit they don't know. A common saying is, "money is the root of all evil". If that is true, how does it provide food, shelter, luxuries and travel? Why is it used to create jobs and make charitable contributions? Money is not evil. It's the way people use it, whether they have little or lots that can cause evil, for themselves, or others. If it is the way people use it that can cause evil, you need an instruction book to avoid misusing it. It's misusing money that is the root of evil. This is your instruction book. In less than 100 pages of stories, experiences, ideas, and examples I make it simple for you to understand money so well that you can talk with anyone about it. How do I make it simple to understand? I make it plain and simple. It's not important for me to sound smart; it's important for me to help you get it, simply. Do you want to know how money gets a raise? That's pretty simple. Who doesn't want to know? Do you want to know how to be a good user of credit cards and debit cards? Do you want banks to desire you as a customer? Do you want to understand how banks think? You do. It pays to know.I hate it when someone talking to me wants to sound like they are so smart, especially smarter than me. No matter what the subject is, you can always tell when someone is trying to pull that on you. Talking about money easily make people feel that way. That's one of the reasons everybody hates to discuss it. I will not make you feel that way. With this book, you feel like you get it. What's important to you? Whatever it is, money will help you get there. Understanding money will give you freedom from stress and the freedom to make choices in life, for you and your family.My goal is to help you understand how money works. You don't have to feel embarrassed. You don't even have to ask.The real question is, "Who wouldn't want to know?"
Startup Money Made Easy
Author: Maria Aspan
Publisher: AMACOM
Published: 2019-02-12
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1400212251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLet the experts at Inc.guide you through every critical step and potential pitfall as their on-the-ground reporting shows how to locate funding, manage your money, and smart hack your way to a comfortable retirement. Startup Money Made Easy gathers the best advice from the magazine’s pages, spotlighting celebrated entrepreneurs and inspiring stories. You’ll hear from: FUBU founder Daymond John, who mortgaged his family home for start-up capital—and built a $6 billion empire Makeup artist Bobbi Brown, who turned a modest lipstick line into a profitable 30-store enterprise Alexa von Tobel, who dropped out of Harvard Business School to launch the equity-magnate LearnVest.com Mark Cuban, Sallie Krawcheck, Max Levchin, and other founders who overcame financial obstacles on their way to the top Additionally, these stories include on-target tips that explain how to: Raise your first $10,000 in capital Power through the lean years Get friends and family to back you up Round up outside investors Go public or sell, while still staying in charge Reward people with great salaries and benefits Eliminate tax season surprises Grow without growing pains Cash flow problems are the number-one business killer. Whether you’re dreaming up a startup idea or knee deep in the craziness, learn to shore up your finances and safeguard the business.
The Money Question
Author: William Augustus Berkey
Publisher:
Published: 1876
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Social Meaning of Money
Author: Viviana A. Zelizer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-09-14
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 069123700X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA dollar is a dollar—or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing relations to cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money. Or is it? Distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author Viviana Zelizer argues against this conventional wisdom. She shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendship and family relations, and otherwise varying the process by which spending and saving takes place. Zelizer concentrates on domestic transactions, bestowals of gifts and charitable donations in order to show how individuals, families, governments, and businesses have all prescribed social meaning to money in ways previously unimagined.
