En un mensaje con fecha 04/14/2005 1:14:19 AM Mexico Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribe:
>I would add that >ALL currency is "monopoly money" with absolutely no value, >whatsoever, except as agreed upon by its users. Which gets us back to another very important point, "The VALUE of any particular good is what a given person at a given moment by their free will GIVE in exchange for certain recognized rights over it." Such as the right to be buried with it. That would seem to make sense. Perhaps if instead of using artificially imposed standards such as gold, we can turn to factoring in purchasing power parity across nations and time and view the world in terms of Big Macs. The Financial Times has had a great deal of luck explaining such deep concepts in terms of Big Macs rather than money. It also goes a long way explaining why meteorites tend to flow to "developed" world countries in exchange for Big Macs. Of if you don't like big Macs, gold, or Uncle Sam's obligations, a meteorite standard would do just as well. The world has certainly come a long way. From international traders using the Spanish Dollar as a standard in the 1600's, to the Mexican Allende meteorite today...And it is true that a gram of Allende doesn't stretch as far as it used to... Saludos ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
