Заполните пропуски в тексте данными словами: Pay, bank, notes, inventions, trade, goods and services, properties, gold standard, willing, inflation-prone. money

Заполните пропуски в тексте данными словами:

Pay, bank notes, inventions, trade, goods and services, properties, gold standard, willing, inflation-prone. money

What is Money?

Money is one of the most important . . . of humankind. Without it a complex, modern economy based on the division of labor, and the exchange of . . ., would be impossible. When you buy a candy bar, you may . . . for it with a coin or paper note. The storekeeper knows that you will eat candy as that he will never be able to get it back from you. He also knows that he can eat neither the coin nor the note you gave him. Why does he accept the coin or note in . . . for candy? It is because the coin is money. At first sight answering the question what money is seems obvious; the man or woman in the street would agree on coins and . . ., but would they accept them from any country? What about checks? They would probably be less . . . to accept them than their country's coins and notes. What about credit cards and gold? The . . . belongs to history but even today many rich people in different parts of the world rather keep some of their wealth in the form of gold than in official, . . . currencies. The attractiveness of gold, from aesthetic point of view, and its resistance to corrosion are two of the . . . which led to its use for monetary transactions years. In complete contrast, a form of money with virtually no tangible properties - electronic . . . -seems to gain in popularity.