The ingenuity of money ... the whole point of this text is that money is a very clever and ingenious trick - we use cowrie shells or bits of printed paper to express the value of ... well, practically anything. And then there"s the ingenuity of the author in explaining that illuminating idea in witty and lucid ways...Money is such a normal and all-pervasive element of human life that we don"t really notice it. Or at...