The name of the network is derived from John Maynard Keynes’s 1930 work, A Treatise on Money, in which he observes thatThe State, therefore, comes in first of all as the authority of law which enforces the payment of the thing which corresponds to the name or description in the contracts. But it comes in doubly when, in addition, it claims the right to determine and declare what thing corresponds to the name, and to vary its declaration from time to time-when, that is to say, it claims the right to re-edit the dictionary. This right is claimed by all modern states and has been so claimed for some four thousand years at least.The acronym of the network, “MMN,” pronounced “Ma-Mo-N,” is an allusion to the ancient Biblical word Mammon, (“ממון”) which according to different translations means money, wealth, possessions; or “that in which one trusts.”