“I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.”
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Edward Gibbon.
The brief of Eric Beinhocker’s outstanding ‘The Origin of Wealth’ (Random House, 2007) is to address the questions: what is wealth ? How is it created ? And how can we create more of it ? But it also, almost incidentally, explains how the current banking crisis happened.
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Shouldn't the 'bon mot' read: 'equal to my vices' instead!
Posted by: Quaestor | July 06, 2009 at 04:50 PM