Three talks by Laurence Lerner about fiction and our changing attitudes to currency.

Tonight Laurence Lerner finds an ambiguity in Marx's theory of money, and suggests that it corresponds to the two ways of presenting the theme in literature. He discusses Ben Jonson's "Volpone" as the finest example of the traditional moral view of money; and finds a counter-tradition in Bonsard's satire.

(Last talk: 1 March)