GOT $5?

For $5 got a remaindered hardback of former FT columnist James Buchan's The Meaning of Money. Random excerpt: "In these manuscripts, one hears, not for the last time from Marx, the authentic voice of the Quixote: that the world of money is a phantasmagoria, and one must ride out to break lances with it, astride the bony charger of philosophy and helmed with political economy (though the helmet appears, to the philistines, to be a barber's basin)."

Another good title in the same vein is James Grant's Money of the Mind.