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Credit Unions

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

CHAPTER

Types of Money and Government Regulation

This chapter discusses different types of money, including commodity money which has a practical purpose in addition to being used as currency. The example of cacao seeds in the Aztec economic system is provided as an illustration of government regulation and standardized pricing.

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