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 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 IV
The Dam Gives Way The first three installments of this series (Part I, Part II, Part III) 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 by political force rather … Continue reading The Monetary Lens: The Past, Present and Future of Humanity Through the Architecture of Money, Part IV
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 II
Fingers in the Dam In Part I, we traced the multi-millennial competition among monetary media — cowrie shells, glass beads, salt, silver, and finally gold — and argued that the progressive victory of more integral over less integral monetary forms was not a series of historical accidents but something closer to a natural law: as … Continue reading The Monetary Lens: The Past, Present and Future of Humanity Through the Architecture of Money, Part II
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