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Where did money come from?

  • Written by Steven Hail, Adjunct Associate Professor, Torrens University Australia
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This article is part one of The Conversation’s “Business Basics” series where we ask leading experts to discuss key concepts in business, economics and finance.


For the most part, economists continue to believe a story of money told to generations of students by a series of textbooks over the past 150 years.

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