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WiM026 - Money Hierarchies with Nik Bhatia

The "What is Money?" Show

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I Love, I Love the Hindoo Arabic Numerical System

Hindo arabic numeral system came out of both cambodia and india, was where they traced it back two. System that was better than roman numerals for commerce. And so a pibinace brought the tools for an emergent merchant banking class. There's a lot of parallels here, i think, with the ways money competes and spreads too.

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