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1、Banking,NationStates,and[nternationalPolitics:ASociologicalReconstructionofthePresentEconomicOrder3ans-HermannHoppe*MoneyandBankingnordertoexplaintheemergenceofbarternothingmorethantheIassumptionofanarrowlydefinedself-interestisrequired.Ifandinsofarasmanprefersmorechoicesandgoodstofewer,hewill:
2、hoosebarteranddivisionoflaboroverself-sufficiency.Theemergenceofmoneyfrombarterfollowsfromthesamenar--owself-interest.Ifandinsofarasmanisintegratedinabarter?conomyandprefersahighertoalowerstandardofliving,hewill:hoosetoselectandsupportacommonmediaofexchange.Inselect-ngamoneyhecanovercomethefund
3、amentalrestrictionimposedon:xchangebyabartereconomy,i.e.,thatofrequiringtheexistenceofIdoublecoincidenceofwants.Withmoneyhispossibilitiesforex-:hangewiden.Everygoodbecomesexchangeableforeveryother,ndependentofdoublecoincidencesorimperfectdivisibilities.Andwiththiswidenedexchangeabilitythevalueo
4、feachandeverygoodnhispossessionincreases.Sincemanisintegratedinanexchangeeconomy,self-interest:ompelshimtolookoutforparticularlymarketablegoodswhichhavelesirablemoneypropertiessuchasdivisibility,durability,recogniz-ibility,portabilityandscarcity,andtodemandsuchgoodsnotfor;heirownsakebutforthesa
5、keofemployingthemasmediumsof?xchange.Anditisinhisself-interesttochoosethatcommodityaslismediumofexchangethatisalsousedassuchmostcommonlyby*Hans-HermannHoppeisassociateprofessorofeconomicsattheUniversityofJevada,LasVegas.ThispaperwillappearinMoneyandNationStateaforthcomingIndependentnstitutebook
6、.rheReviewofAustrianEconomics,Vol.4,1990,pp.55-87SSN0889-304756TheReviewofAustrianEconomics,Volume.others.Infact,itisthefunctionofmoneytofacilitateexchange,t,widentherangeofexchangepossibilities,andtotherebyincreasethlvalueofone'sgoods(insofarastheyareperceivedasintegratedina1exchangeeconomy).T
7、hus,themorewidelyacommodityisusedamoney,thebetteritwillperformitsmonetaryfunction.Drivenbynlmorethannarrowself-interest,'manwillalwayspreferamoregenera1and,ifpossible,auniversalmediumofexchangetoalessgeneraornon-universalone.Forth