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Episode 96: What Is Money, Anyway?

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The Second Treatise on Government

In order to think about money in the year 2018, we've really got to look back into our deep, dark past. What happened in 1689? Well there was this guy, an English guy, I guess the English were more rational once upon a time. There was a guy named John Locke who wrote a pretty good book called the Second Treatise on Government. In that book, he covered almost everything that we still think about when we think about political life.

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