For a Few Dollars More
Frank Kermode, 18 September 1997
Frozen Desire: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Money
by James Buchan.
Picador, 320 pp., £17.99, September 1997,0 330 35527 9 Show More
by James Buchan.
Picador, 320 pp., £17.99, September 1997,
“... of all Scots’, so there is some excuse for me. On the other hand most of us have heard of Michael Miliken, of whose Law-like career Buchan offers a vivid sketch. He could ‘create money with a single sentence’, his salary in 1986 was $550 million, which, on the Buchan-approved capitalisation model of Sir William Petty (20 times one’s annual ... ”