How to Speak Money

First American Edition 2014

First published in Great Britain under the title How to Speak Money:
What the Money People Say—And What They Really Mean

First published as a Norton paperback 2015

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Lanchester, John.

How to speak money : what the money people say : and what it really means / John Lanchester. — First American Edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-393-24337-6 (hardcover)

1. Economics—Terminology. I. Title.

HB62.L36 2014

330.1'4—dc23

2014028529

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ISBN 978-0-393-35170-5 (pbk.)

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