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  • Dror Goldberg

    () (Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University)

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The legal foundation of the monetary system is the law of legal tender. The “legal tender” concept is used in models to describe almost anything except for what it really means in actual laws. Such errors prevent an accurate evaluation of the importance of this legal status. This note explains in simple terms what “legal tender” really means.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University in its series Working Papers with number 2009-4.

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Date of creation: Apr 2009
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Handle: RePEc:biu:wpaper:2009-4

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Keywords: Legal tender; Contract law; Taxes;

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    by Economic Logician in Economic Logic on 2010-04-16 14:42:00
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    by Miguel in Simoleon Sense on 2010-04-18 19:47:02

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