The Monetary Lens: The Past, Present and Future of Humanity Through the Architecture of Money, Part VI

The Birth of Integral Money The prior installments (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V) of this series traced the multi-millennial competition among monetary media, in which more integral monetary forms reliably defeated less integral ones with the impersonal regularity of water finding its level; examined how the gold standard was dismantled … Continue reading The Monetary Lens: The Past, Present and Future of Humanity Through the Architecture of Money, Part VI

The Monetary Lens: The Past, Present and Future of Humanity Through the Architecture of Money, Part V

The Axis Mundi and the Fate of Gold The prior installments of this series traced the long competition among monetary media, in which more integral monetary forms reliably defeated less integral ones across millennia; examined how the gold standard was dismantled by political force and at what compounding cost; showed that the deepest ideological debates … Continue reading The Monetary Lens: The Past, Present and Future of Humanity Through the Architecture of Money, Part V