It’s just a little article on the history of money, but I managed to get something published on the Mises Wire!
The article is “The Rise and Fall of Good Money: A Tale of the Market and the State.”
It was originally a part of a longer essay I wrote that had to be split up to fit into the Mises Wire length requirements. I’ll put up the other two parts in separate posts:
What Makes Good Money? A Misesian Perspective
This piece goes through the first half of Mises’s Theory of Money and Credit and pulls out the qualities Mises thought were necessary for things to serve well as money.
Why Cryptocurrency Is (Still) Interesting
This one looks at cryptocurrency from the same Misesian standards and evaluates it as a potential money. Then it discusses the upcoming shift that state monetary systems are making towards Central Bank Digital Currencies and evaluates that as well.