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The Nature of Money

Lena Rethel
I-PEEL, 2015
Level: beginner
Topic: Money & Debt
Format: Learning Text
Link: http://i-peel.org/money/

The dossier gives an overview of the functions and the nature of money as well as the phenomena associated with it such as inflation and currency crises. Later the concept of Islamic finance as an alternative system to current monetary arrangements is briefly explored and some cultural practices related to money are described.

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Tags: commodity money | currency crisis | depreciation | fiat money | inflation | Islamic finance | money | prices | speculation | value
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