What is Money Level 6
Across
- 3. The Greek word for custom or law, the root of the Greek word for money.
- 5. The function of money that provides a common measure against which the values of different goods and services can be compared.
- 8. The property that allows a money to be moved by the parties to a transaction in quantities proportionate to the value involved.
- 11. A term used to describe a money that satisfies the seven properties to a workable degree.
- 13. The bean used as money across much of Mesoamerica from at least the time of the Maya into the Spanish colonial period.
- 15. The seventh property of money, recognized in the analytical literature only in the contemporary period, that protects a money against alteration by parties who would benefit from altering it.
- 18. The reduction of the substance of a money by an issuing authority while the nominal value is maintained.
- 21. The function of money that allows the holder to defer consumption and hold purchasing power across time.
- 22. The problem that money in any particular time and place depends on a community accepting it as such.
- 23. The character of money as something humans have made rather than something found in nature.
Down
- 1. The people of western Anatolia credited with the earliest known stamped electrum coins in the late seventh or early sixth century before the common era.
- 2. The shell used as money across much of the Indian Ocean and African trade for more than a thousand years.
- 4. The unit of rice used as a principal measure of wealth and instrument of payment in feudal Japan.
- 5. The first and most fundamental property of money, requiring that parties to a transaction agree to take the substance in exchange.
- 6. The Greek word for money, derived from the word for custom or law.
- 7. The shared agreement of a community that an object will function as money, contrasted with nature.
- 9. The Greek philosopher who articulated the claim that money exists not by nature but by law.
- 10. The property that makes one unit of a money interchangeable with another unit of the same denomination.
- 12. The property that limits the supply of a money so that it can hold its value across time.
- 14. The property that allows a money to hold its physical character across time and repeated use.
- 16. The property that allows a money to be broken into smaller units without losing its relative value.
- 17. A record of ownership and obligation, held in physical form, in writing, or in shared community memory.
- 19. The function of money that allows two parties to complete a transaction even when neither wants exactly what the other has to offer.
- 20. The monetary system introduced in 2009 that combines a mathematically limited supply with a distributed verifiable record of ownership.
- 24. The Japanese historical period from 1603 to 1868 during which rice functioned as a principal monetary instrument.