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Is There a Monopoly in Local Currency?
Wight: We live in a world where people have, they are kind of pushing this idea that market forces are elemental. Wight: How do you wind those arguments? Well, that's why i'm a, i mediate theorist. What mediat theorists do best is we de naturalize things. Say, oh, look at the corporation and central currency. God didn't actually make those things. It turns out there were these monarchs in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth century who saw the rise of the middle class and these purteper local currencies ind these market places. They said, oh, no, doing bismall business is illegal. We're
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