https://polaine.com/tags/financial-crisis/ Recent content in financial crisis on Andy Polaine Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:42:36 +0000 https://polaine.com/2008/11/the-rules-of-currency/ Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:42:36 +0000 https://polaine.com/2008/11/the-rules-of-currency/ Image: J0nB0n Stephen Sniderman’s excellent 1999 essay, Unwritten Rules, in The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology talks about the tacit agreement of unwritten (and impossible) rules required for any kind of play or game. He uses currency as an analogy - we all know the piece of paper is inherently worthless but don’t argue over it when we buy a carton of milk. We mutually agree that a dollar is worth a dollar.