Aspects of the Pathology of Money

‘I hope you’re a good hand at pinning and tying strings?’ Tweedledum remarked. ‘Every one of these things has got to go on, somehow or other.’

Alice said afterward she had never seen such a fuss made about anything in all her life . . . ‘Really they’ll be more like bundles of old clothes than anything else, by the time they’re ready!’ she said to herself.

THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS

With a grateful, friendly, and respectful bow to the memory of Sir Dennis Robertson—who put this quotation on the title page of his ECONOMIC FRAGMENTS, published in 1931, at about the time I was sitting at his feet in Cambridge University as a post-doctoral student.