I have for auction, an interesting piece of history, especially for owners with a copy of the 1988 Economist issue.
A Universal Money by Walter Bagehot - "Ultimately the world will see one Code de Commerce, and one money as the symbol of it."
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For those of you who are unfamiliar with Walter Bagehot, here are some fun facts:
- His nickname was "The Spare Chancellor" (better than being a chancellor on the brink
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- He was the editor of The Economist for 17 years
- Married Eliza Wilson, whose father, James Wilson, was the founder and owner of The Economist.
- The Economist still has a weekly column named after him, Bagehot's Notebook.
https://www.economist.com/bagehots-notebook/ - Coined the term "Lender of Last Resort"
The 1991 Omni magazine article "The Future of Money" from this thread...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5148433.0 mentions both, this book, as well as the now famous 1988 Economist issue. The article can be read here on page 30...
http://www.housevampyr.com/training/library/books/omni/OMNI_1991_06.pdfThis is a 2nd edition book published in 1889. I believe the 1st editions were a series of articles (opposed to a traditional 1st edition book) issued in The Economist in 1869, but I have been unable to verify this.
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