Coining at Troynovant:
freely marketing public prices for subjective values,
quantifying value into commodity;
powering the precious rounds of trade & theft,
minting true coin, false coin, enterprise & economics;
listed by Title
As well as exposition, we include some novels, stories and films with notable economic content beyond their narration of workaday lives and worlds. As elsewhere, we seek leavening for the heavy bread of theory, lest light-bringing and uplifting ideas are grounded and buried under presumed gravity.
Better a debtor.— "Better a debtor than pay with a coin that does not bear our image!" says our sovereignty.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science, #252 (1887)
translated by Walter Kaufmann
[He] reached into his pocket and dropped two small coins into the palm of her hand. They were miniature disks of shining gold, smaller than pennies, the kind that had not been in circulation since the days of Nat Taggart; they bore the head of the Statue of Liberty on one side, the words "United States of America — One Dollar" on the other, but the dates stamped upon them were of the past two years.
"That's the money we use here," he said. ...
"But ... on whose authority?"
"That's stated on the coin — on both sides of it."
Ayn Rand
"Atlantis"
Atlas Shrugged (1957)
| Algebra of John Maynard Keynes, The | WH Stoddard | |
| Campaign of the Century, The Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics |
Greg Mitchell | RW Franson |
| Door into Summer, The | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Economics and the Public Welfare A Financial and Economic History of the United States, 1914-46 |
Benjamin M. Anderson | RW Franson |
| Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, An | David Hume | WH Stoddard |
| Fear the Boom and Bust A Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem |
John Papola / Russ Roberts | WH Stoddard |
| Firm of Girdlestone, The | A. Conan Doyle | RW Franson |
| Five Thousand Year Leap, The The 28 Great Ideas That Changed the World |
W. Cleon Skousen | SE Jordan |
| For Us, the Living | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| For Us, the Living | Robert A. Heinlein | WH Stoddard |
| Four-Day Planet | H. Beam Piper | RW Franson |
| Iceworld | Hal Clement | RW Franson |
| Ill Met in Lankhmar | Fritz Leiber | RW Franson |
| Junkyard Planet (The Cosmic Computer) (Graveyard of Dreams) |
H. Beam Piper | RW Franson |
| Negative Railway, A | F Bastiat | |
| Ninotchka | Ernst Lubitsch / Greta Garbo | RW Franson |
| Objectivist Newsletter, The 1962-1965 |
Ayn Rand & Nathaniel Branden |
RW Franson |
| Objectivist, The 1966-1971 |
Ayn Rand & Nathaniel Branden |
RW Franson |
| Psychohistorical Crisis | Donald Kingsbury | WH Stoddard |
| Rand at Troynovant | ||
| Repudiate the National Debt | W McElroy | |
| Ricardo's Law or the Law of Association |
WH Stoddard | |
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Role of Business and the Virtuous Cycle of Progress |
G Stolyarov II | |
| Rolling Stones, The (Space Family Stone) |
Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Sargasso of Space | Andre Norton | RW Franson |
| Say's Law or the Law of Markets |
WH Stoddard | |
| Secret of the League, The | Ernest Bramah | RW Franson |
| Spanish Gold | George A. Birmingham | RW Franson |
| Thieves' House | Fritz Leiber | RW Franson |
| Why Men Earn More The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap and What Women Can Do About It |
Warren Farrell | W McElroy |
[Denmark; the castle. The Queen's private chamber.]
Hamlet:
Why, look you there. Look how it steals away.
My father, in his habit as he lived.
Look where he goes even now out at the portal.[Exit Ghost]Queen Gertrude:
This is the very coinage of your brain.
This bodiless creation ecstasy
Is very cunning in.William Shakespeare
Hamlet, 3.4.125-130
Philosophy at Troynovant
nature of existence; history of ideas
Utopias at Troynovant
utopia in power, or dystopia
Mervyn LeRoy was assigned to direct Warner's next musical extravaganza, Gold Diggers of 1933. He chose me to play the role of Fay Fortune, a fortune-hunting chorine. ... The picture opened with a line of choristers covered in huge silver coins singing "We're in the Money." Harry Warren and Al Dubin of 42nd Street were responsible for the music and lyrics. And Busby Berkeley was again the inventive dance director.One day on the set, I was handed the opening song and told to learn it by that evening. The scene was to be shot the next day and we had to be up on the number. I pleaded with Malcolm Beelby, the pianist, to forsake his lunch hour to help me learn my lyrics. ... We went into a corner of the sound stage and started to rehearse. After about three hours, I started getting a little slap-happy, so instead of singing the lyrics as they were written, I translated them into pig latin:
Er'way in-hay the oney-may, ...In the middle of this nonsense, ... Out of the corner of my eye, I could see a man standing at the left of the stage, wearing a porkpie hat, with a big cigar in his mouth. It was Darryl F. Zanuck, Warner's production chief. Immediately, I stopped singing.
"What are you doing?" asked the observer. ...
I knew that I was going to get fired for fooling around on company time, but I did as he asked. I sang the song as it was written, and then lapsed into my pig-latin version.
After I finished, Darryl paused, thinking. Finally, he said, "You tell Mervyn I want you to sing it just like that tomorrow." He walked out with the measured deliberation of a producer.
I repeated the story to Mervyn and he said, "Darryl's right. It's a great way to start the movie." The next day, Mervyn brought in a big crane and started filming from the back of the set. As I sang "We're in the Money," the camera came in slowly for a close-up and the screen was filled with my lips singing the song ... in pig latin! It was a sensational opening.
Ginger Rogers
Ginger
My Story (1991)
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