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Austrian school arguments on the free market origin of money
The Austrian School of Economics offers an innovative and vital perspective on how money came to be, a perspective that firmly establishes money as a free market creation and validates the efficacy of market exchange.
According to Carl Menger, the 19th-century founder of the Austrian School, money could not have originated as the invention and imposition of a wise ruler or government. Several difficulties and outright absurdities are inherent in such a scenario:
1) No historical record of any state-imposed origin of money anywhere in the world can be found. Surely, such a critical development, if it had originated in a state edict, would have attracted the attention of contemporaries who would have permanently commemorated it in a multitude of Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsExploring the uses of the word "black"
Of all the words in the English language, few carry the power of the word “black.” As a word, black gets its power from its ability to invoke emotional extremes, from the deepest, darkest primordial evil (”Black Death”) to the highest in elegance and wealth (”Black Tie Only”). Most often we look to black when the concepts we describe have nothing to overshadow them.
Dark objects are said to be “black as the Ace of Spades” or “black as night.” Dark-skinned people are sometimes called black. The black widow is the name of a venomous spider and a vicious female billiards pro. Football plays and teachers’ lessons used to come to us from the blackboard. Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsStarting a blog to make money
Blogging is huge. Millions of blogs populate the web with constantly updated information and entertainment about every possible topic. You can blog for fun, for family, for your own personal enjoyment, or to make money. Blogging to make money has become one of the most popular reasons for starting a blog.
Blog to Make Money – Getting Started Tips
There are two ways to start a blog on the internet: use a free blogging platform such as Blogger, or establish a blog on your own website with a top-level domain name. To make money, you can use either, but the latter choice is more professional. If you intend to transform your blog into an entire Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsSpreading the word about Helium
Helium has allowed me to grow as a writer. I am very happy that I checked out the site when one of my good friends sent me the link. I have been onboard here at the community since 2004 so I have seen a lot of changes with the site. I am proud to be a member as the changes have most often brought higer quality articles, more opportunities to write, and the ability to become published not only on the Helium site but with mainstream publishers as well. I am a writer who loves to write and when I feel passionate about something I love to share my knowledge. How do I spread the word about Helium to others?
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No CommentsWhy you should not steal royalty free images for your articles
You’ve just written a great article, and are ready to submit it to AC. But wait! There’s no photo! So you decide to look around the Internet, and you stumble upon a microstock photography agency that happens to have just the image you are looking for. So you casually take a screen shot of the image, and post it with your article. Guess what? You just committed a crime. In this article, I will discuss how to properly find images for your articles.
What is Microstock Photography -
Microstock photography is a fairly new way for photographers to make money. Instead of photographers selling their images at a gallery, they simply post their images online to a microstock agency such as iStockphoto. Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsThe history & symbolism of images on American banknotes
On the back of the 1914, $10 Federal Reserve note are two images. The left image presents an agrarian scene: three farmers, cultivating corn with the aid of a horse-drawn harvester. The left image is one of steep contrast: an industrial setting with factories billowing smoke from their stacks and train cars in the front. Both images fade into the center in a way that seems like they are pointing to the middle of the bill, which is empty of an image. But what are they pointing to? Why are these seemingly paradoxical images brought together on a piece of paper that held such wide circulation in the American populace?
This banknote is just one example of many during the years Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsPoetry analysis: The Owl and The Pussycat, by Edward Lear
Nonsense is powerful stuff. Edward Lear’s poem “The Owl and the Pussycat,” which makes no literal sense whatsoever, has charmed its way into the hearts of children and adults since it was written in 1871. The cultural influence of this poem has been broad indeed; it has inspired musical compositions by composers such as Stravinsky, and its title was borrowed for a 1970 romantic comedy starring Barbara Streisand.
This poem’s form follows a simple pattern appropriate for a nursery rhyme. Each of its three stanzas is eleven lines long. The rhyme scheme is ABCBDEDEEEE. The ninth and tenth lines are shortened versions of the eighth and eleventh, which are identical in Read the rest of this entry »
How to earn extra money on Squidoo
Squidoo is a site which allows the user to build what is essentially a miniature web site, called a lens. Each lens is built using a series of different building blocks called modules and each of these modules is populated with different types of material in order to hopefully optimise them individually and add something of further relevance to the lens. Many of these modules allow the site user to earn from them individually as well as increase the likelihood of generating further earnings for the lens itself.
A Squidoo lens is essentially a web page providing information on a very specific subject. The more specific we make the subject, the more likely we are to receive lots of quality Web Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsOrigins of money and exchange values
The Origin of Money
(Money is a fact of life, it always has been. Money acts as an intermediary market value, which may be exchanged for goods or services. Through history, money has taken many different forms, including scarce metals and even slaves. Today, the majority of money exchanged takes no physical form, and only exists as bytes and bits in a computer’s memory.)
When we take our stash of bread to do a bit of shopping do we know what is money? When we shell out silver for the morning paper or dig deep into our green stuff from our bankroll to pay the grocer do we know the Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsPrada or Picasso? Understanding new trends among art collectors
One of the reasons that art has become so hot is that those with money have identified art as a means of getting noticed and becoming part of the hip art collector crowd . What use if having lots of money if no-one knows about it and what better way to get noticed than to spend huge amounts of money on art. In the past, Impressionist artworks have been the Prada of the art world with everyone who showing up at the worlds auction houses and snapping up the best impressionist paintings. The problem with the Impressionist painting “fad” is that the publicity and recognition the rich collectors received was short lived meaning that they had to buy another and Read the rest of this entry »
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