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| Historically, and narrowly, money referred to cash (notes and coins) in official currency backed by the relevant government.
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| Such money may be legal tender.
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| | An agreement to facilitate free trade between Canada and the United States (from 1989) and Mexico (from 1994). |
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| More generally, money is anything accepted for the settlement of debts in an economy or jurisdiction.
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| To the economist, money is whatever is used for four roles:
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| # Medium of exchange.
| | *[[European Free Trade Association]] |
| # Unit of account.
| | *[[Free trade agreement]] |
| # Store of value.
| | *[[Free trade area]] |
| # Standard for deferred payment.
| | *[[International trade]] |
| | | *[[Mexico]] |
| | | *[[United States]] |
| ''Fiat money.''
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| Money, then, can be many things, but most often today is ''fiat'' (let it be) money, i.e. tokens provided by a government and accepted by them for payment of taxes, or abstract representations of it. The latter are mostly as electronic representations in the accounts of banks and other monetary financial institutions, including [[central bank]]s. Most money in developed countries consists of these records rather than of the tokens issued as fiat money.
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| ''Commodity money.''
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| In the past money has been commodity money, for example gold or silver or valuable spices or shells, the value of which is in the valuable material or object rather than a nominal value ascribed to (a portion of) it. A government can issue tokens (e.g. notes or coins) exchangeable for a fixed quantity of such a commodity. Such tokens are known as representative money.
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| == See also == | |
| * [[Barter]] | |
| * [[Broad money]]
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| * [[Cash]]
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| * [[Central bank money]]
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| * [[Commodity]]
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| * [[Cryptocurrency]]
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| * [[Currency]]
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| * [[e-money]]
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| * [[Fiat currency]]
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| * [[Fiat money]]
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| * [[Finance ]]
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| * [[Financial stability]]
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| * [[Fungible]]
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| * [[Gold standard]]
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| * [[Hard money]]
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| * [[Hot money]]
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| * [[In the money]]
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| * [[Legal tender]]
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| * [[Materialistic]]
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| * [[Monetary]]
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| * [[Monetisation]]
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| * [[Money laundering]]
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| * [[Money market]]
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| * [[Money supply]]
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| * [[Money terms]] | |
| * [[Narrow money]] | |
| * [[Overnight money]] | |
| * [[Quantity theory of money]] | |
| * [[Time value of money]] | |
| * [[Token]] | |
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| === Other links ===
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| [http://bankunderground.co.uk/2015/08/21/monies-joining-economic-and-legal-perspectives/ Bank Underground blog: Monies - Joining economic and legal perspectives]
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| [[Category:The_business_context]]
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| [[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]
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