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> How much does the historical origin of money matter to the understanding economics of today? A lot? Money is a social construct, so the history of money is s
by jkhdigital 5y ago
> How much does the historical origin of money matter to the understanding economics of today?
A lot? Money is a social construct, so the history of money is something like a record of empirical observations that must be accounted for by any proposed theory of money. The fact that most modern economists don't seem too concerned with this doesn't mean that it's not important.
- unmole 5y agoRight, and programmers should first learn Panini's grammer before they start writing code in constructed languages.
- zeckalpha 5y agoIt is spelled grammar. My favorite course I took in college was historical linguistics. But I was a linguistics major… I do expect CS students to take a history of computing course.
- unmole 5y ago> It is spelled grammar. Maybe it's interesting to linguistics majors but the rest of us tend to ignore typos when the meaning is clear from the context. > My favorite course I took in college was historical linguistics. And? > I do expect CS students to take a history of computing course. The overwhelming majority of them don't and seem to do just fine.
- zeckalpha 5y agoThen history is doomed to repeat itself…