![]() ![]() She also has chapters where she describes how Marx’s wife played an integral role in his success, and where she explains the relationship that women such as Virginia Wolf and Joan Didion have had with money and ownership. ![]() Biss does a great job of introducing the reader to the work and ideas that scholars and thinkers such as John Kenneth Galbraith and Karl Marx had during their lifetimes, without using unnecessary jargon. I found Biss’ book to be incredibly accessible, well-thought out and refreshingly honest and candid about money. I have recently become more interested in understanding more about homeownership and capitalism, two things I was assured by many of the reviews that I had seen online I would find out more about while reading this book. I decided to pick up Eula Biss’ most recent book, Having and Being Had, because of the reviews I had seen of it I had seen online. ![]()
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