The Joy of Money - "jargon - free" practical dictionary of business vocabulary
Having worked for a long time in the City and written an investment column for the Financial Mail on Sunday, the overwhelming feedback I got from readers and my non-City friends was that I should write an easy-to-read book clearly explaining finance and its terminology, which wouldn’t put them to sleep. There are already a lot of highly respected, competent technical books available about share markets, economics, accounting, etc. My purpose in writing this book is not to compete with them. I just want to make finance fun! Use this guide when you come across some financial phrase or word that you don’t understand in the papers or on telly, look it up in the book and, hopefully, gain instant enlightenment! Entries are in alphabetical order, and I have aimed to explain what the words in the world of money actually mean. However, anything that’s related to pensions is to be found under the heading of pensions. The same treatment has been applied to mortgages, health insurance and derivatives.
A Smaller Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology, and Geography All names have been inserted which a young person would be likely to meet with at the commencement of his classical studies; and only those have been omitted which occur in later writers, or in works not usually read in schools.
The mythological articles have been illustrated by drawings from ancient works of art.
Care has been taken not to presume too much on the knowledge of the reader.
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