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  <title><![CDATA[Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went]]></title>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Categorical Syllogism Review:<br/><br/>Idiots are rarely right about anything.<br/>Thomas Sowell, an idiot, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/money--by-john-kenneth-galbraith-5600">hates</a> this book.<br/>Therefore, this book is probably pretty good.<br/> <br/>I really enjoyed this. Galbraith upbraids the Milton Friedmanites, savages Nixon, writes like a smoking jacke...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53324781">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[With all that's going on with the economy, I figured I owed it to myself to finally learn how money works. Rabbi Wein describes Galbraith's memoirs as &quot;funny,&quot; and the flap copy on this book said that reading it would not be &quot;a chore,&quot; so I figured this was the economics book for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39042537">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although not assigned, I read this book alongside a bunch of other Galbraith books for Schweickart's Capitalism, Democracy, Socialism class at Loyola University Chicago.  Although a history of common currencies since antiquity and around the globe, it serves as a witty introduction to some basic con...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52344153">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating narrative about the history of money, mostly covering the last couple centuries, mostly in the US and Western Europe.  Oddly enough this book reminded me very much of Eagleton's <em>Introduction to Literary Criticism</em>, probably because both work through history, pull out various ideas, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4794496">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why did we believe once in gold being money and then silver and now only paper?<br/><br/>Why can't we simply barter?<br/><br/>Galbraith tells us all the answers!<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[starting to get a hazy feel for how the fed works I think.]]></body>
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