Milton FRIEDMAN :: The Island of Stone Money (1991) . [must read 7-page paper in economics] - https://docs.google.com/viewer...
What is something worth? A very basic question which has many complicated answers. Friedman, a Nobel prize winning economist, shares a short story without any mathematical equations which illustrates the point that valuation is an emergent property of collective beliefs. Even gold in central bank vaults is like that huge stone shown in the photograph above. - Adriano
It sounds like Bitcoin. :-) - Amira