It tells of an average day for a professor of history that ends with life gone mad. The children behave like adults and the adults behave like children. All social authority has collapsed and all sense of duty and morality is vanquished. It is difficult to tell the real from the unreal. All coherence and predictability in social life are at an end.
Money is what makes complex economies possible.
It is the primary means by which we are able to discern the value of our work and our property. It permits businessmen to calculate and to make rational judgments. It allows all of us to plan and prepare for the future. Reading Cantor and Mann, you sense what life in Yugoslavia must have been like for much of this decade. Western advisers armed with Keynesian and inflationist theories, together with Western governments bearing bil- lions in aid, stymied the free market.