The Flood and the Ark The first six installments (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI) of this series traced the multi-millennial competition among monetary media, in which more integral monetary forms reliably displaced less integral ones with the impersonal consistency of water finding its level; examined how the gold … Continue reading The Monetary Lens: The Past, Present and Future of Humanity Through the Architecture of Money, Part VII
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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 III
Strange Bedfellows and the Return of Gravity Part I traced the long competition among monetary media, in which more integral monetary forms reliably defeated less integral ones across millennia of civilizational encounters, culminating in the gold standard of the nineteenth century. Part II examined how that standard was dismantled by political force rather than outcompeted … Continue reading The Monetary Lens: The Past, Present and Future of Humanity Through the Architecture of Money, Part III
The Monetary Lens: The Past, Present and Future of Humanity Through the Architecture of Money, Part I
The Natural Selection of Money There is a familiar way of narrating history. It features oppressors and victims, conquerors and the conquered, and it assigns moral valence to deeds and outcomes. This framework is not wrong — power has been wielded cruelly, and the suffering caused has been real. But it is incomplete in a … Continue reading The Monetary Lens: The Past, Present and Future of Humanity Through the Architecture of Money, Part I
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