“The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing on which to base the value of our money and the stability of our industrial system.”
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Dennis Holme Robertson
Dennis Holme Robertson was a renowned economist, born on May 23, 1890, and died on April 21, 1963. He made significant contributions to the field of economics, particularly in the areas of international trade and monetary theory. more
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