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The Road to a Single Fiat World Currency
07/10/2023 Thorsten Polleit[This article is a selection from the March-April issue of The Austrian.]
What if the world’s states were to come together and create a single world currency? From a purely economic point of view, there would be significant advantages if every nation didn’t operate with its own money but with the same currency. Not only for an individual economy, but for the world economy as a whole, the optimal number of currencies is one. Let’s take a look.
The decisive factor is how this single world currency comes about, and who issues it. In a free market for money—in a natural process—a single world currency would emerge from the voluntary agreements of the market participants: the money demanders would decide which commodity they want to use as money. It is impossible to predict with certainty what the outcome of the free choice of currency would be; after all, it resembles a discovery procedure whose outcome is not known in advance. However, it can be assumed that a commodity currency would be created, that gold or possibly a cryptounit would be chosen as the money base.
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The Road to a Single Fiat World Currency | Thorsten Polleit
[This article is a selection from the March-April issue of The Austrian.] What if the world’s states were to come together and create a single world currency?