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Money has this in common with measures in general, that it is a type of language, differing among different peoples in everything that is arbitrary and conventional, but of which the forms are brought closer and made identical, in some respects, by their relation to a common term or standard.
This paper is presumed to have been written for Morellet’s venture of a Dictionnaire de Commerce in five volumes, a project which never materialised, though a prospectus was issued in 1769. See Morellet, Prospectus d’un nouveau Dictionnaire de Commerce, Paris, 1769, pp. 1–8; and above, ‘Introduction’, pp. XXVI–XXVII.
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Galiani, M. Della Moneta, Milan 1831, I, pp. 58–59
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Groenewegen, P.D. (1977). Value and Money (1769). In: Groenewegen, P.D. (eds) The Economics of A.R.J. Turgot. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1073-3_9
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