Course I : Understand Money through History
Sequentia Academy’s first course materials
Reading: 210 minutes
Video: 60 minutesTEST: 30 minutes
TOT course: 300 minutes (5 hours)
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| EFFORT | TITLE | AUTHOR | LINK |
| 7 min | What is Money: the intrinsic characteristics (annex excluded) | A. De Luigi | https://www.albertodeluigi.com/2023/04/20/what-is-money-intrinsic-characteristics/ |
| 20 min | Bitcoin vs Gold vs Fiat | A. De Luigi | https://www.albertodeluigi.com/2023/04/22/bitcoin-vs-gold-vs-fiat/ |
| 35 min | The Birth of Fiat Money | A. De Luigi | https://www.albertodeluigi.com/2020/01/31/fiat-money/ |
| 30 min | Anarchy, State and Utopia pp. 149-164 from The entitlement Theory to How Liberty Upset Patterns (included) | R. Nozick | |
| 10 min | Justice as Equality and Neutrality ch 2.7 pp 76-79, until the example of the tennis court & tomatoes | A. De Luigi | |
| 4 min | The injustice of a wrong basket (annex in What is Money article) | A. De Luigi | https://www.albertodeluigi.com/2023/04/20/what-is-money-intrinsic-characteristics/ |
| 10 min | The Bitcoin Standard, ch 2 The Primitive Moneys, pp. 11-16 [alternative Shelling Out: the Origins of Money, 75 min]) | S. Ammous, or N. Szabo | PDF [alternative https://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/] |
| 40 min | The Tragedy of Fiat Money | A. De Luigi | https://www.albertodeluigi.com/2023/04/21/the-tragedy-of-fiat-money/ |
| 12 min | The Fiat Standard (ch 6 pp 80-84 Gold Spatial Salability, Fiat Spatial Salability | S. Ammous | |
| 2 min | Operation Bernhard (par. Origins of the plan) | – | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bernhard |
| 1 min | The ten points of the Communist Manifesto | K. Marx & F. Engels | https://heidelblog.net/2014/02/the-ten-points-of-marxism/ |
| 15 min | World War II and Bretton Woods, in The Bitcoin Standard (cap 4) | S. Ammous | |
| 3 min | John Palmstruch and Stockholms Banco | Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Palmstruch |
| 60 min | goodmorning, money laundering is beautiful | G. Zucco | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp1B_i4JlXc&t=1400s |
| 20 min | The Fiat standard, ch. 8 Fiat food | S. Ammous | |
| OPTIONAL: The Fiat standard, ch 9 Fiat science, ch 11 The fiat States, par. The misery industry) | S. Ammous |
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