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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:15:54 MET
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- From: Grzegorz Albinowski <caius@II.UJ.EDU.PL>
- Subject: why gold - money qualities
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- "Why gold?" you ask.
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- [Here are the qualities money should have:]
- -portability
- -indestructibility
- -homogeneity
- -divisibility
- -cognizability
- -relative stability of value compared to other commodities
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- As Jevons comments, "Some of the metals seem to be marked out by nature as
- most fit of all substances for employment as money, at least when acting
- as medium of exchange and a store of value"
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- (This passage taken from M. Skousen book on gold. I hope you will find
- it of value)
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- Caius.
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