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Great This American Life episode on "What is Money", a "stoner question" that I'm sure the vast majority of us have puzzled over.
The start is a bit pedestrian but there are some great interviews with people who both lived through the Brazilian inflation and with the 4 economists who finally turned it around:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
(Note that anyone viewing this after next Sunday - the 16th - will have to go to the Radio Archive and look for "The Invention of Money" broadcast Jan 7-11.)
Good, entertaining way to think about some fundamental stuff without driving yerself batsh!t crazy.
The start is a bit pedestrian but there are some great interviews with people who both lived through the Brazilian inflation and with the 4 economists who finally turned it around:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
(Note that anyone viewing this after next Sunday - the 16th - will have to go to the Radio Archive and look for "The Invention of Money" broadcast Jan 7-11.)
Good, entertaining way to think about some fundamental stuff without driving yerself batsh!t crazy.