Karl Marx was so broke in 1859 he couldn’t afford the postage stamps to mail off his new manuscript, leading the philosopher to lament, “I don’t suppose anyone has ever written about ‘money’ when so short the stuff”.
He was probably right about that. However, the most famous book about money written by someone strapped for cash wasn’t Das Kapital or The Communist Manifesto. It was A Christmas Carol, writes MarketWatch.
