Worthless Men Ballantine Books Do we understand what choices

Do we understand what choices we have

such as Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ and the law of supply and demand

These are questions that measure our effort

born to tell

and one that will leave an indelible imprint on every reader

Worthless Men Ballantine Books Do we understand what choicesIt's market day in an English city two years into the Great War. The farmers are coming in from the country, the cattle are being driven through the streets and that evening a trainload of wounded soldiers is due to arrive. At the local mansion, its new hospital tents to the ready, waits Montague Beckwith, himself a psychological casualty of the war. In the town's poorest quarter, Winnie Barley prays that Walter, her missing son, will be on the train