num_pages: 320
description: Novelist Buchan, a former correspondent for the Financial Times, traces the meaning of money since its beginning. He discusses money in its various formats, emphasizing that money itself is not just an object but "an outcome of a vast mountain of social arrangements." Various scenarios depict the role of money in love, war, religion, and other areas of human culture. Buchan uses many historical and literary works to clarify the perception of money throughout the ages, relying on Aristotle, Columbus, Shakespeare, John Law, Marx, and Keynes, to name a few, in these stimulating discussions. Although he writes in a scholarly style, Buchan his many suspenseful and intriguing passages.
language: English
title: Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money
titlecomplete: Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money
genres: Finance, Nonfiction, Philosophy, History, Economics, Money
ratings_count: 77
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Duff Cooper Prize
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux