Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, Political Economy: 04 Currency

by Scapegoat and Chris Lee

Currency is structured by a fundamental contradiction between its necessary circulation and its stubborn foundation in sovereign territories. On the one hand, it is designed to represent value and facilitate its exchange in standardized, fungible units; on the other, its relative scarcity generates a strong incentive to hoard it, withdrawing and storing its value, converting it into fixed assets such as property whose existence relies on the same...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1482370689
• ISBN13: 9781482370683
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"