Category Archives: Tasks

Money as an abstract concept is not an overly foreign idea to me. Taken out of any societal context, exchanging fairly worthless metals or paper for immediate and real goods and services doesn’t make much sense. However, it’s also quite … Continue reading →

At first, the story of the people of Yap sounded completely foreign and abstract to me. I thought they were some fictional people with very ambitious methods of presenting wealth because of the massiveness of their currency. I couldn’t grasp how … Continue reading →

The Story of Yap is one that made me think a lot about the way we as americans also exchange currency. Some people might say that the idea of carrying  big rock around and exchanging it as a form of … Continue reading →

The idea of the fei seems irrational to most people who are told the story of the Island of Stone Money and Yap’s form of currency because it is. But to compare this to currency of more developed countries and say that … Continue reading →

I suppose you can say that my thinking of money has changed, because I really had not thought about it until talking about Yap. At first, I was thinking how ridiculous the trading of large stones was, and how even … Continue reading →