Table of Contents
C O N T E N T S:
Introduction: Money Being Transformed
PART I: THE POETICS OF MONEY
1. Tribute Paid: At the Intersection of Spirit and Money
2. Coining a Myth: Titian--Danae and the Shower of Gold
3. Trumped Money: Value and the Eye of the Beholder
4. The Other Invisible Hand: Money and Its Subtle Influence on Social Life
5. Reforging Adam Smith: Beyond the Gates of Self-interest
6. An Inventory of Polarities: Quentin Metsys--The Money Lender and His Wife
7. Begging to Differ: Charity at the Threshold
8. Economic Chiaroscuro: Georges de La Tour--The Payment of Taxes
9. Money and the dance of Death: Hans Holbein the Younger--The Rich Man
10. Mercy in Mercantile Times: Gabriel Metsu--Usurer with Tearful Woman
11. Judas's Dilemma, Giotto's Rendition
12. Free Market Money in a Pop Iconomy
13. Money and the Modern Mind
14. The Touchstone and the Labyrinth: A Step into the Mystery of Money
15. The Transcendentalist and the Immigrant: Two Views of Money in America
PART II: A TOPOGRAPHY OF TRANSACTIONS
1. Economics and the Presence of Philanthropy
2. A Window into Transparency: The Desire for Connection through Finance
3. Just Money and Social Finance
4. Consuming Identity
5. Real Virtuality: QQ Coins and the Quandary of Complementary Mercantilism
6. A Degenerative and Regenerative Economics of Philanthropy and Gift
7. Culture--for the Price of Admission
8. Toward a Topography of Financial Transactions
9. Faith, Hope, and Love: Elements of an Appreciative Economy
PART III: A WEALTH OF TRANSFORMATION: INTERVIEWS EXPLORING MONEY AND SPIRIT
An Interview with Jacob Needleman
An Interview with An Anonymous Doner
An Interview with Charles Terry
An Interview with Krystyna Jurzykowski
An Interview with Paul Mackay
An Interview with Michael Spence
An Interview with Lynne Twist
An Interview with Betsy Taylor
An Interview with Wangari Maathai
Epilogue: Money Weighs and means