摘要翻译：
这篇评论是关于货币的便利性、好处以及破坏性的能力。它涉及货币创造的各个方面，包括它的价值和它的挪用。各种各样的钱往往会因为最终创造太多而腐化。从长远来看，这使钱变得一文不值，并剥夺了持有它的人。这种对货币创造的滥用是不可避免的，应该不足为奇。滥用职权的货币创造以各种形式出现。在目前的法定货币体系中，货币“悬浮在自由思想中”，仅仅依靠我们对它的信念和对它的制约来维持，通过过度的政府支出和投机性信贷创造，货币很方便地从“稀薄的空气”中创造出来。唉，任何过于紧张的货币供应都可能导致各种不友好的收购，包括战争或竞争，从而毁掉经济。因此，金钱作为恩人和破坏者的矛盾心理应该被接受为命运。
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英文标题：
《An Apology for Money》
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作者：
Karl Svozil
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最新提交年份：
2011
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分类信息：

一级分类：Quantitative Finance        数量金融学
二级分类：General Finance        一般财务
分类描述：Development of general quantitative methodologies with applications in finance
通用定量方法的发展及其在金融中的应用
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一级分类：Physics        物理学
二级分类：Physics and Society        物理学与社会
分类描述：Structure, dynamics and collective behavior of societies and groups (human or otherwise). Quantitative analysis of social networks and other complex networks. Physics and engineering of infrastructure and systems of broad societal impact (e.g., energy grids, transportation networks).
社会和团体（人类或其他）的结构、动态和集体行为。社会网络和其他复杂网络的定量分析。具有广泛社会影响的基础设施和系统（如能源网、运输网络）的物理和工程。
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英文摘要：
  This review is about the convenience, the benefits, as well as the destructive capacities of money. It deals with various aspects of money creation, with its value, and its appropriation. All sorts of money tend to get corrupted by eventually creating too much of them. In the long run, this renders money worthless and deprives people holding it. This misuse of money creation is inevitable and should come as no surprise. Abusive money creation comes in various forms. In the present fiat money system "suspended in free thought" and sustained merely by our belief in and our conditioning to it, money is conveniently created out of "thin air" by excessive government spending and speculative credit creation. Alas, any too tight money supply could ruin an economy by inviting all sorts of unfriendly takeovers, including wars or competition. Therefore the ambivalence of money as benefactor and destroyer should be accepted as destiny.
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PDF链接：
https://arxiv.org/pdf/0811.3130