Contents

I. Introduction

II. Thinking about Money

1. What are Money Worries Really About?

2. A Good Relationship with Money

III. The Secret Meaning of Money

1. When Money is Not Money

2. How to Strip Off

3. What is Money?

IV. Money and the Good Life

1. Money as an Ingredient

2. Jane Austen’s Theory of Marriage

3. Envy as Education

V. Creating Order

1. Need versus Want

2. How Much Money Do I Need?

3. Price versus Value

4. Longing and Fear

VI. How to Make Money and be a Good Person at the Same Time

1. Having and Doing

2. What Rex Got Wrong and Other Lessons

VII. My Place in the Big Picture

1. The Problems of the Rich

2. The Virtues of Poverty

3. The Intimate Relationship with Money

Homework