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MAKING MONEY by Terry Pratchett - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKSee all titles by Terry Pratchett.
Moist von Lipwig, condemned prisoner turned postal worker extraordinaire (see Pratchett's Going Postal)
is back! Except this time he's been put in charge of a different branch
of the government: he's responsible for overseeing the printing of
Ankh-Morpork's first paper currency.
Making Money takes on the banking industry and the institution
of paper money. Thus far, Ankh-Morpork has operated on the gold
standard-goldish anyway. Now Lord Vetinari, the humanitarian despot of
Ankh-Morpork, dragoons Moist von Lipwig to reform the Royal Bank: "The
city bleeds, Mr. Lipwig, and you are the clot I need." As a forcibly
reformed con artist who has previously overhauled the post office,
Moist is perfectly qualified to oversee what might just be a glorified
shell-game. As he puts it when someone protests that he's in too much
of a hurry, "[P]eople don't like change. But make the change happen
fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another."
Besides his
native craftiness, Moist is partly aided by the Glooper, a Rube
Goldberg/Hammer Horror quasi-computer invented by Hubert -- "Hubert's
an economist. That's like an alchemist, but less messy." The Glooper,
claims Hubert, simulates "quite complex transactions. We can change the
starting conditions, too, to learn the rules inherent in the system.
For example, we can find out what happens if you halve the labor force
in the city, by the adjustment of a few valves, rather than going out
into the streets and killing people." Less messy, indeed.
Pratchett's novels really do have satirical targets. Particularly in
his more recent novels, Pratchett takes on various institutions to see how in the world -- any world -- they came to be and
even, sort of, work. And how does the banking system work anyway? Perhaps a fantasy writer
is professionally equipped to understand the kind of magic that
underpins it. Filled with Pratchett's usual sharp wit, keen social commentary, and sagacious observations, Making Money is another highly anticipated volume in the internationally bestselling Discworld canon.
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