... previous age monetaryaffairs and monetary theories have ever captured so vast an army of debaters, professional and amateur, as exists in today’s perplexing world of uncertainty, inflation, unemployment, ... concretemedia of exchange and/or the means of payment carried the samenames as, or were at least consistently related to, money’s two abstractqualities of accounting and measuring. By that is meant that, ... well-documented case of the German inflation of 1923 the ‘butter’ standardemerged as a more reliable common measure of value than the mark.Towards the end of the Second World War and immediately after,...