Money, money, money! : a short lesson in economics / Hans Magnus Enzensberger ; translated by Simon Pare ; with illustrations by Sonaksha Iyengar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus, author.

Contributor:

Pare, Simon, translator.

Iyengar, Sonaksha, illustrator.

Series:

German list

The German list

Standardized Title:

Immer das Geld! English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Wealth--Fiction.

Wealth.

Economics.

Economics--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

159 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2020.

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

The Federmanns live a pleasant but painfully normal life in the Munich suburbs. All that the three children really know about money is that there's 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?

Notes:

"First published in German as Immer das Geld! ©Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin, 2015." -- Copyright page.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780857427342

0857427342

OCLC:

1140124281