Authors:
Belén Barros Pena
Money, it would seem, has always been a puzzle. — Geoffrey Ingham Nobody seems to know what money is. This is despite all of us using money every day—or perhaps because of it. The question What is money? has traditionally been a subject reserved for economists. Their standard answer is that money is what money does, and that money does three things: It is a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. Perhaps dissatisfied with this function-centered answer, other disciplines have started to volunteer alternative definitions of money, bringing their own particular perspectives to…
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