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

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

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