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

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