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“The ancient Greek word for money, for currency, is 'nomisma.' It comes from the verb 'to imagine.'" "So money has value to the extent that we imagine that it has value, according to the ancient Greeks. They knew that more than 2,000 years ago, and we kind of forget that simple, important notion at…” quote by Yanis Varoufakis
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““The ancient Greek word for money, for currency, is 'nomisma.' It comes from the verb 'to imagine.'" "So money has value to the extent that we imagine that it has value, according to the ancient Greeks. They knew that more than 2,000 years ago, and we kind of forget that simple, important notion at times.””

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