The Origins of Money

By Nick Szabo. 2002

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The Evolution of Institutions: An Agenda for Future Theoretical Research (2002, background): “But at first he dismissed the problem, saying that money is likely to take the form of precious metals, and these are ‘easily controlled as to their quality and weight’ (Menger 1892: 255).”
Social Support and Money as Pain Management Mechanisms (2008, background): “It goes back no more than a few thousand years and takes various forms across history and cultures (Grierson, 1977).”
Market and society : the great Transformation today (2009, background): “Philippe Steiner (Chapter 4) argues that Polanyi had similar preoccupations to those of the Durkheimians.”
Money in the modern economy: an introduction (2014, background): “He contrasts that view with the position of Menger (1892), who proposes a more natural evolution.”
The Institutions of Monetary Policy (2004, unknown): “Money overcomes the constraint of the double coincidence of wants implied by barter exchange, a view set out in detail by Carl Menger (1892) and which is modelled explicitly in Nobuhiru Kiyotaki and Randall Wright (1989).”