All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money. (Anne Robert Jacques Turgot)

All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money.

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

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