Civilizing Money by George Caffentzis;

Author:George Caffentzis;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi)

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Did Hume Read Berkeley’s The Querist? Notions and Conventions in their Philosophies of Money

Whether, if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high round this kingdom, our natives might not nevertheless live cleanly and comfortably, till the land, and reap the fruit of it.

—George Berkeley, The Querist (Johnston 1970: 136, SQ 134)

But as any body of water may be raised above the level of the surrounding element, if the former has no communication with the latter; so in money, if the communication be cut off, by any material or physical impediment, (for all laws alone are ineffectual) there may in such a case, be a very great inequality of money … We need not have recourse to a physical attraction, in order to explain the necessity of this operation. There is a moral attraction, arising from the interest and passions of men, which is full as potent and infallible.

—David Hume, Political Discourses (Hume 1987: 312–313)

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