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Gold, credit and the Ikon: Three kinds of money

What are the differences between a commodity money, credit money and the Ikon – currency of the future ? Using the gold standard as an example of the first, where the price of gold was fixed and money was convertible into it on demand at that price, gold and sure claims on gold were money….
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Written on May 7, 2013 at 8:58 am, by robert

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Categories: "Gold", Homepage, News and Comment, Official Money, RP's Diary, The Ikon
Tags: central banks, David Graeber, global financial system, gold, Karl Marx, Keith Hart, Marx, the Ikon, The Money Trap

Memories of Professor James Buchanan

I first came across James Buchanan through his long-term collaborator and colleague, Professor Gordon Tullock. It must have been in 1972 or 1973. Gordon and I met by accident in Frankfurt, where I was interviewing the then president of the Bundesbank for The Banker, of which I was then editor. We had one of those…
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Written on January 13, 2013 at 9:26 pm, by robert

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Categories: Homepage, News and Comment, RP's Diary, The Ikon
Tags: Andrew Crockett, David Graeber, Debt The First 5000 years, global financial system, Gordon Tullock, IMF, Interlaken Seminars, James Buchanan, Karl Brunner, Keith Hart, Michael Jensen, public choice, Public Choice Centre, Robert Skidelsky, Skidelsky, Tyler Cowen