I have been accused of disrespecting my betters. In a recent dispute on twitter, Rohan Grey berated me for daring to criticize the narrative presented by Christine Desan in her work on the history of money, on the grounds that I lacked the technical knowledge of the history of money and the law adequate to evaluate it. I was, he implied, attempting to make an intervention out of what amounted to a beginner’s mistake, and that all my confusions would be cleared up by reading (in his words) “a 1000+ page book that covers these issues,” to which Desan contributed an introduction which, according to Grey, “serves as the overarching framework” of the book. The book in question is
The King's Shilling
The King's Shilling
The King's Shilling
I have been accused of disrespecting my betters. In a recent dispute on twitter, Rohan Grey berated me for daring to criticize the narrative presented by Christine Desan in her work on the history of money, on the grounds that I lacked the technical knowledge of the history of money and the law adequate to evaluate it. I was, he implied, attempting to make an intervention out of what amounted to a beginner’s mistake, and that all my confusions would be cleared up by reading (in his words) “a 1000+ page book that covers these issues,” to which Desan contributed an introduction which, according to Grey, “serves as the overarching framework” of the book. The book in question is