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Bronze Age: commodity money, credit and debt. Many cultures around the world developed the use of commodity money, that is, objects that have value in themselves as well as value in their use as money. Ancient China, Africa, and India used cowry shells. The Mesopotamian civilization developed a large-scale economy based on commodity money.
commodity. Locuzione anglosassone che descrive ogni tipo di merce o materia prima tangibile e fruibile sul mercato, facilmente immagazzinabile e conservabile nel tempo. Deriva dal francese commodité, con il significato di ottenibile comodamente. Esempi tipici di c. sono il gas, il petrolio, i metalli preziosi e non, i prodotti agricoli come ...
Metallism. Metallism is the economic principle that the value of money derives from the purchasing power of the commodity upon which it is based. The currency in a metallist monetary system may be made from the commodity itself ( commodity money) or it may use tokens (such as national banknotes) redeemable in that commodity.
Commodity-based money and commodity markets in a crude early form are believed to have originated in Sumer between 4500 BC and 4000 BC. Sumerians first used clay tokens sealed in a clay vessel, then clay writing tablets to represent the amount—for example, the number of goats, to be delivered.
In Marxist philosophy, the term commodity fetishism describes the economic relationships of production and exchange as being social relationships that exist among things (money and merchandise) and not as relationships that exist among people. As a form of reification, commodity fetishism presents economic value as inherent to the commodities ...
Fiat money is an alternative to commodity money, which is a currency that has intrinsic value because it contains, for example, a precious metal such as gold or silver which is embedded in the coin. Fiat also differs from representative money , which is money that has intrinsic value because it is backed by and can be converted into a precious metal or another commodity.
Credit theory of money. Single and split tally sticks in the Swiss Alpine Museum – similar items may have been used in debt based economic systems thought to pre-date the use of coinage. Credit theories of money, also called debt theories of money, are monetary economic theories concerning the relationship between credit and money.
