The Wisdom of Money

by Pascal Bruckner

Money is an evil that does good, and a good that does evil. It inspires hymns to the prosperity it enables, manifestos about the poor it leaves behind, and diatribes for its corrosion of morality. In The Wisdom of Money, one of the world's great essayists guides us through the rich commentary that money has generated since ancient times--both the passions and the resentments--as he builds an unfashionable defense of the worldly wisdom of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674972279
• ISBN13: 9780674972278
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.3"