origin of money

This is the origin of money according to Smith.

"You cannot open an anonymous account and our checks on the origin of money have become very stringent."

Barter occurred between strangers, not fellow villagers, and hence cannot be used to naturalisticly explain the origin of money without the state.

Carl Menger, "On the Origin of Money"

He said that "it is neither acceptable nor possible for the recipient organizations to verify" the origin of money donated to them by foreign welfare agencies and church groups.

More specifically, the standard description of the origin of money since Adam Smith has been used as a motive for the private issuance and control of money.

Secondly, the analysis of the historical and archaeological evidence about the real origins of money is not simply a matter of "facts", but also a matter of the interpretation of the facts using theoretical frameworks.

This, as the authors emphasize, is not only of academic interest, as the discussion on the origin of money leads directly to the question of the nature of money and who should be authorized to create money.

The chapter begins by questioning the standard description of the origin of money, in brief, that man first engaged in barter and then introduced money as a means of simplifying the trade and making it more efficient.

The "lafo" custom, however, does not share the fundraising origins of money dances, although it does reflect the former tradition of presenting fine mats and tapa cloth at festive occasions that were concluded with the taualuga.

One twist to the affair is that while Mrs. Kopp was Justice Minister, she pushed for a strong money-laundering law that would punish for up to five years people who sought to conceal the criminal origin of money.

The "neo-Chartalist" interpretation of money entails, that the commodity theory of money is false; the latter, it is argued, can neither explain the origin of money and credit, nor provide a credible account of monetary phenomena in the modern world.

Four volumes co-edited by Hudson have appeared so far, dealing with privatization, urbanization and land use, the origins of money, accounting, debt, and clean slates in the Ancient Near East (a fifth volume, on the evolution of free labor, is in progress).

Stung by the country's reputation as a place of preference for money laundering by international drug traders, the Swiss Government is showing signs of changing its policy after decades of defending banking laws that made it easy for depositors to hide the origins of money.

Money laundering, at its simplest, is the act of making money that comes from Source A look like it comes from Source B. In practice, criminals are trying to disguise the origins of money obtained through illegal activities so it looks like it was obtained from legal sources.