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John Law’s 'Money and Trade Considered' is the most influential but least acknowledged work in the history of economics.
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― John Law: The Lauriston Lecture and Collected Writings
― John Law: The Lauriston Lecture and Collected Writings
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Every time you use a banknote; every time you use a modern coin; every time you use a credit card or debit card; every time you use internet banking; every time you use any modern crypto currency; every time you use a gift voucher; every time you use a poker chip; in fact, every time you enter into any form of transaction that does not rely on bartering, each such transaction has its ideological origins in John Law’s idea that money need have no intrinsic value.
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― John Law: The Lauriston Lecture and Collected Writings
― John Law: The Lauriston Lecture and Collected Writings
