0:00 good morning welcome to the history of money my name is professor barth and i'm a history professor at arizona state university today we embark on lesson one of our course and you'll see the outline there part a we will deal with the origins of commodity money part b we will answer the question why gold and silver part c we will take a look at the price system
0:31 i'm gonna dive into a little bit of theory a little bit of monetary theory before we uh before we uh venture into the ancient world and so let's take a look at the origins of commodity money of course last time we saw that as the more narrow economic definition of money commonly accepted medium of exchange we'll see today that there are some items that are used as a medium of exchange that are not commonly accepted and so therefore they
1:02 cannot be properly called money money is a universal measure of value and money is a store of value there are three basic types of money and i'm going to begin today with commodity money and as the course progresses we will take a look at the the other two but when i when i use the word commodity money commodity money that indicates a a a type of money that has
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