More than 99% of the general public think that money works as a system of tokens (real or electronic) that get passed from person to person as trade is carried out.
Ooh, a banking enquiry. Bob Diamond's geezers will be quaking in their Guccis.
Anybody else noticed the transition these days from a group of bankers, bureaucrats and politicians grappling (and largely failing) with an intractable economic crisis, to something more sinister?
What really counts for our happiness and welfare? Professor Herman Daly on what's important for economic man.