Frozen Desire

James Buchan

Original title: Frozen desire

first published 1997 Welcome Rain, 2001 paperback 320 pages

In Buchan's view, money is civilizations's greatest invention. All manner of things can be called money, and almost every culture has given money an ideal existence. Even so, Buchan points out, "money, which we see and hold every day, is diabolically hard to comprehend in words." It is this very elusiveness that is at the root of money's power to seduce. As Buchan explains, money is "frozen desire" - and because mon...

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Frozen Desire paperback · 2001 · Welcome Rain · 320 pages · 9781566491808
Frozan Desire hardcover · 1998 · MacMillan · 336 pages · 9780330369312
Frozen Desire hardcover · 1997 · Picador · 320 pages · 9780330355278
The Psychology of Money hardcover · 1997 · Pan Macmillan · 9780333640562
Frozen desire edition · 1997 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 320 pages
Frozen Desire edition · 1997 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9780374257057

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