What is the meaning of all this that we see? Is this wealth or is it poverty?asks Stephen Leacock in this clearheaded and highly readable study of workwages and... » 

What is the meaning of all this that we see? Is this wealth or is it poverty?asks Stephen Leacock in this clearheaded and highly readable study of workwages and social utopia. The world seems filled with money and short of goods while even in the midst of this very scarcity a new luxury has broken outhe states. The capitalist rides in his ten thousand dollar motorcar. Thesevendollaraday artisan plays merrily on his gramophone in the broaddaylight of his afternoon that is saved like all else by being borrowedfrom the morning While he gained his fame as a writer from such amusingbooks as Frenzied Fiction Nonsense Novels and Literary Lapses StephenLeacock 18691944 was also Professor of Political Economy at McGillUniversity Montreal. «