economists typically don't use that definition.

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Shane Mage <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Oct 6, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
>
>> While makes a lot of sense in most cases, how does this deal with pure
>> fiat money, i.e., money that's based on the power of the state to
>> restrict its supply (and to make an artificial demand, as with
>> requiring that people pay taxes using the fiat money)? What about pure
>> commodity money, where something is used as money simply because it's
>> standardized and scarce?  Maybe the author needs to define what he
>> means by "money"?
>
> Why should he have to do that?  *The* definition of money is stated on
> the front of
> every Federal Reserve Note: "legal tender for all debts public and
> private."
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>
> Shane Mage
>
> "All things are an equal exchange for fire and fire for all things,
> as goods are for gold and gold for goods."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr, 90
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