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What Money Really Means

Thomas Kostigen

出版	Allworth Press, 2002
主題	Business & Economics / Accounting / GeneralBusiness & Economics / Money & Monetary PolicyBusiness & Economics / Personal Finance / General
ISBN	15811525909781581152593
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iXczvgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

An exploration of the meaning and significance of money in the 21st century,y "CBS MarketWatch" columnist Thomas Kostigen. Using candid interviews withrominent economic, financial and spiritual leaders, American families,rison inmates, welfare mothers and lottery winners to illustrate hisbservations, he investigates how money is made, acquired and desired inoday's society and seeks to identify its value beyond its commercial andinancial meaning. With psychological and financial insight, Kostigen pondershe questions at the forefront of our consciousness: where does our appetiteor money come from? How much is needed for survival? How integral is it todentity? Can it really buy happiness? The author traces money's meaninghrough key financial institutions and inventions, through the homes andorkspaces of average Americans, and into the temples of the various worldeligions.;Interview candidates include Yale economics professor Martinhubik; Dee Hock, founder of Visa; Nobel Prize-winning economist Josephtiglitz; developer Donald Trump; and Rabbi Burt Visotszky.