The Importance of Money in Economics

Once economics had been established as a discipline, the theological arguments no longer seemed necessary or important. People continue to argue about whether an unfettered, free market really will produce the results that smith said it would but no one questions whether the markt naturally exists. The underlying assumptions that drive from this came to be seen as common sense so much so that we simply assume that when valuable objects do change hands, it will normally be because two individuals have both decided they would gain a material advantage by swapping them. Call this the final apotheosis of economics.