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The Philosophy of Money with Stephen Hicks (WiM350)

The "What is Money?" Show

CHAPTER

The History of Money

Most people would tend to believe that it is this consciously designed tool, typically something issued by government. But when you study the history of money, we actually discover that it's more of an emergent, spontaneous phenomenon. So there are examples of centrally designed monies, and there are bottom up or emergent monies. And so again, we have to get into into the value issues.

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