Other People’s Money

Other People's Money And How the Bankers Use It (1914) is a collection of essays written by Louis Brandeis first published as a book in 1914, and reissued in 1933.


All the chapters of the book appeared as articles in Harper's Weekly between 22 November 1913 and 17 January 1914, and were written before November 1913.


I. Our Financial Oligarchy

II. How the Combiners Combine

III. Interlocking Directorates

IV. Serve One Master Only!

V. What Publicity Can Do

VI. Where the Banker is Superfluous

VII. Big Men and Little Business

VIII. A Curse of Bigness

IX. The Failure of Banker-Management (first appeared in Harper's Weekly, 16 August 1913)

X. The Inefficiency of the Oligarchs


Many of the details in Other People's Money may be dated, but its central ideas remain relevant--so much so that is still in print almost 90 years after it was first published.


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