Wednesday, June 20, 2012
James Surowiecki — A Brief History of Money
Hap tip to Micheal Boudreaux in the comments, who says, "I just came across an article in IEEE Spectrum magazine (Electrical Engineers) that gets a lot of stuff right or pretty close. It quotes Graeber, talks about the neoclassical fascination with scarcity and notes that gold standard was such because it was declared to be, much like our current fiat paper. Wiki claims 380K readership for the magazine. The article is not perfect, but better then most. IT seems to me that Engineers (like me) catch on to MMT and closed systems more easily then many."
Read it at IEEE Spectrum
A Brief History of Money
Or, how we learned to stop worrying and embrace the abstraction
by James Surowiecki
James Surowiecki writes The Financial Page at The New Yorker.
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4 comments:
We math-based organisms don't get a lot of love.
Not completely true, paul. The problem with math is that love is not quantifiable, and indeed, some take Lord Kelvin to the extreme and claim that if it can't be quantified and measured, it can't be said to exist. Those people define themselves away from quality. Of course, not all quants are like that.
“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science.”
― Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson)
Another math-based organism discovered:
http://econintersect.com/b2evolution/blog2.php/2012/06/20/the-ponzi-arithmetic-of-profit
This caught my eye:
"Money is a zero sum accounting equation, and arithmetic doesn’t care about our political values."
Wiki claims 380K readership for the magazine. yup its right. i am agree with this
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