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Money, Money, Money!: A Short Lesson in Economics

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By (author): Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Translated by: Simon Pare

A unique and modern approach to money, wealth, greed, and financial ignorance presented via a story of a family in the Munich suburbs.

The Federmanns live a pleasant but painfully normal life in the Munich suburbs. All that the three children really know about money is that theres never enough of it in their family.
 
Every so often, their impish Great-Aunt Fé descends on the city. After repeated cycles of boom and bust, profligacy and poverty, the grand old lady has become enormously wealthy and lives alone in a villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. But what does Great-Aunt Fé want from the Federmanns, her only surviving relatives? This time, she invites the children to tea at her luxury hotel where she spoils, flummoxes, and inspires them. Dismayed at their ignorance of the financial ways of the world, she gives them a crash course in economics that piques their curiosity, unsettles their parents, and throws open a whole new world. The young Federmanns are for once taken seriously and together they try to answer burning questions: Where does money come from? Why are millionaires and billionaires never satisfied? And why are those with the most always showered with more?
 
In this rich volume, the renowned poet, translator, and essayist Hans Magnus Enzensberger turns his gimlet eye on the mechanisms and machinations of banks and politiciansthe human greed, envy, and fear that fuels the global economy. A modern, but moral-less fable, Money, Money, Money! is shot through with Enzensbergers trademark erudition, wit, and humanist desire to cut through jargon and forearm his readers against obscurantism.
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Dec 2020
  • Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780857427342

About Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Hans Magnus Enzensberger often considered Germanys most important living poet is also the editor of the book series Die Andere Bibliothek and the founder of the monthly TransAtlantik. Seagull Books has published many of his books including most recently Tumult Panopticon and Anarchys Brief Summer. Simon Pare is a translator from French and German living near Zurich.  

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