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Vīta Brevis, Wit Artefāctōrum Ætērna Podcast

by Ash Stuart
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  • The Story of Money: The Conundrum of Coin Debasement

    October 9, 2026 · 8 min

    We traced in Episode 031 the emergence of gold and silver as ‘pure’ and ‘noble’ metals perfectly suited to serve our economic needs in the form of money, and then in Episode 032 their comparative importance and finally in Episode 033 how…

  • The Story of Money: The Origins of the Coin

    October 2, 2026 · 7 min

    Over the last couple of episodes we’ve explored the use of gold and silver as money and the tussle between the two. Let’s now get to the question of ‘form factor’: To appreciate the value of coins, something we’re so used to and thus take…

  • The Story of Money: Gold? Or Silver?

    September 25, 2026 · 7 min

    We established in the previous episode that two metals emerged across history and across cultures as the most suitable units of measuring value, ie, money. As promised there, let’s now look at the tussle between the two. Quite simply…

  • The Story of Money: Why Gold?

    September 18, 2026 · 7 min

    It’s perhaps one of the most obvious and well-known things in human life - that gold and silver are or at least were used as money. But let’s step back and see how and why this happened. I have reiterated a few times in this series that…

  • The Story of Money: Meeting Maslow

    September 11, 2026 · 8 min

    So far we have been talking mainly about the basics of economics (and finance). Let’s today, as it were, take things up a notch. A brief detour into our fictional world: remember back in Episode 006 the one about risk, where Steve had a…

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  • The Story of Money: The Great Crash of 1929

    September 4, 2026 · 8 min

    Last time we looked at the phenomenon of supposedly ‘rational’ behavior leading to wild aggregate market outcomes. Let’s now look at what’s arguably the most spectacular and devastating real-world example of this. For, even as the 20s in…

  • The Story of Money: The Irrationality of Rational Action

    August 28, 2026 · 6 min

    A key thread running through all my writing in this series is how each of these topics, and how economics as a whole, relate to each of us, here and now. So let’s today tackle the question of how human behavior impacts markets and how that…

  • The Story of Money: The Rabbit Hole of Money Creation

    August 21, 2026 · 8 min

    Back in the day when I worked in banking, in a workshop the presenter asked “What do banks do?”, and I said “they make money”, to which his reply was “of course every institution needs its earnings”. But that’s not what I meant. Let’s…

  • The Story of Money: Meeting Malthus

    August 14, 2026 · 7 min

    You might have heard of the Malthusian Trap in some TV programme, say as part of a solemn, strokey-beard pronouncement by an expert on a panel of very wise-looking, sagely-nodding, well, experts. Let’s unravel it today. We haven’t met our…

  • The Story of Money: The Concept of Competition

    August 7, 2026 · 7 min

    In the last episode we looked at monopoly, let’s now turn to its antidote, competition. To the extent that competition is at the opposite end of monopoly, and given monopoly literally refers to ‘one-seller’, the phenomenon we are talking…

  • The Story of Money: The Matter of Monopoly

    July 31, 2026 · 7 min

    Back in Episode 022 while on the topic of mercantilism, we touched upon the idea of cartels - a small band of merchants grouping together for market abuse and unfair advantage. Let’s take it a notch up. Let’s first go back to where we left…

  • The Story of Money: The Intricacies of Money Supply

    July 24, 2026 · 7 min

    I started this series by emphasizing that money is rather simply a measure of value than having intrinsic value itself. (Episode 001.) Later, in Episode 017 we looked at the dynamics of supply and demand. Let’s now look at the interplay of…

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About the show

Exploring innovation, progress and achievement: a first-principles approach to everything that matters; combining history, epistemology, economics, anthropology, geopolitics, finance, philology, etymology and more... for, life is short, knowledge forever. ashstuart.substack.com