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Money

Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context. The primary functions which distinguish money are: medium of exchange, a unit of account, a store of value and sometimes, a standard of deferred payment.

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Etymology

History

Functions

Properties

Money supply

Types

Monetary policy

Locality

Financial crimes

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Money

Nodes231
Edges230
Triples286
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008658
Components1

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Money

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related to Further reading · 63
Money → AD, Adam, Akinobu, American Public Media, An Outline, Annual Review, August, Banks, Brzezinski, Chicago Press, Chown, Davies, Duncan Connors, Economics, Enrique Martino, Evidence, February, Federal Reserve, Ferguson, Financial History
related to External links · 17
Money → Bastable, BBC Radio, Charles Francis, Encyclopædia Britannica, Evans, In Our Time, Jane Humphries, Mar, Media, Niall Ferguson, Richard, Vol, Wikimedia Commons Quotations, Wikiquote The, Wikisource, Wiktionary Works, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to history · 17
Money → According, Africa, Americas, Asia, Australia, BC, Cypraea, Herodotus, Instead, It, Lydians, Many, Mesopotamia, Societies, The, The Mesopotamian, When
related to Monetary policy · 17
Money → Board, California, Columbus, Deflation, Federal Open Market Committee, Federal Reserve Act, For, Governors, However, In, Modern-day, New World, Often, Spain, The, This, When
related to Counterfeiting · 16
Money → American, Before, British, Counterfeit, Counterfeiting, During World War II, Euro, Fourrées, Historically, Lydian, Nazis, Plated, Producing, Superdollars, There, Today
related to Paper · 14
Money → At, China, In, Innovations, Islamic, It, Muslim, Pi Sheng's, Song, Tang, The, The Song, This, Yet
related to Etymology · 12
Money → Ancient Rome, Capitoline, French, In, Juno, Juno Moneta, Latin, Rome, Rome's, The, The Latin, Western
related to Demurrage · 10
Money → Demurrage, Freigeld, Freiwirtschaft, Gesell, He, John Maynard Keynes, Proponents, Silvio Gesell, The German-Argentine, Unlike
related to Digital or electronic · 10
Money → Anonymous, Bitcoin, By, Early, Ecash, In, Instead, RPOW, The, United States
related to Commodity · 9
Money → Although, American Eagles, Commodity, Examples, Krugerrand, Many, The, These, Wampum

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value gold currency coins used bank exchange commodity payment paper monetary banks financial silver account unit medium standard notes economy

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

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Moneyis amedium of exchange that can be transported both across space and time0.90text
Moneyis amost liquid asset because it is universally recognized and accepted as a common currency0.90text
Moneyis acommodity0.90text
Moneyis aform of fraud or forgery0.90text
naturally scarce precious metalsinstance ofTypesCommodityMany items have been used as commodity money0.80text
conch shellsinstance ofTypesCommodityMany items have been used as commodity money0.80text
barleyinstance ofTypesCommodityMany items have been used as commodity money0.80text
beadsinstance ofTypesCommodityMany items have been used as commodity money0.80text
and many other things that are thought of as having valueinstance ofTypesCommodityMany items have been used as commodity money0.80text
the Krugerrand are considered legal tenderinstance ofAlthough some gold coins0.80text
there is no record of their face value on either side of the coininstance ofAlthough some gold coins0.80text
certificatesinstance ofpaper money or other physical tokens0.80text

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