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Why restrict it to the nation then? Why not city currencies? There are lots of countries - like India and China - where the gap in income between regions is lar
by 5thaccount 9y ago
Why restrict it to the nation then? Why not city currencies? There are lots of countries - like India and China - where the gap in income between regions is larger than between countries.
It's a weird concept money, and I wonder what the right level is. I doubt it is optimised at the country level, but then a "better" notion like demographic similarity may be impractical, even if better, e.g. one currency for Northern Italy and one for Southern may be difficult to sell even if preferable, and ditto a unified Basque/southern French currency, or an eastern seaboard Yuan and a country China currency.
- lmm 9y agoAs a Londoner I suspect we'd all benefit from having different monetary policy in London and the rest of the UK. The argument I've heard is that fiscal and monetary policy have to be applied together, so it makes sense to have currency controlled at the same level as taxation.