Article 4VJME In uncertain times, a museum of money is a sure-fire winner

In uncertain times, a museum of money is a sure-fire winner

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Phillip Inman
from Economics | The Guardian on (#4VJME)

For 40 years now, British people have had to take responsibility for their financial future. An educational museum where people could learn how this is best done is long overdue

What Britain needs is another museum. No, really. Amid all the hand-wringing about whether Britain's economic destiny lies in or out of the European Union, there is a clear need for a place to visit that can help people discover how money works.

A Brexit deal may have been passed and this election will be a distant memory whenever the museum opens its doors, but with financial education at such a low ebb, a centre that facilitates the discussion of modern-day market capitalism (and its alternatives) must be worth the relatively small outlay.

We tie economics to nature, because economics starts in nature and ends in nature. We try to relate everything in the museum to people as economic actors

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