When the principles which underlie it are thoroughly understood, money is perhaps the mightiest engine to which man can lend his guidance. Unheard, unfelt, almost unseen, it has the power to so distribute the burdens, gratifications, and opportunities of life, that each individual shall enjoy that share of them to which his merits entitle him, or to dispense them with so partial a hand as to violate every principle of justice, and perpetuate a succession of social slaveries to the end of time.
-- Alexander del Mar (A History of Money in Ancient Countries, p. 345)
Articles in this category:
- Anonymous Currency
- Companies as mini-countries
- Distributed Currency
- Feynman, Rothbard, and the Science of Economics
- Futures
- How High is Inflation
- How the Financial Crisis Was Built Into the System
- Local Currencies
- Money in Mind
- P2 P Lending
- The Real Story of Money (by Loren Howe)
- US Credit Crisis
- US Quasi- Fiat Currency
- World Bankers
- core.onion on the Crash of 2008
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Edge: Economic Dis-Equilibrium (Can You Have Your House And Spend It Too?) by George Dyson
Edge: Economics is not a Natural Science by Douglas Rushkoff
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Transaction.Net Articles on the Future of Money
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