DOES MONEY HAVE A FUTURE?

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Published: Nov 21, 2025

  Oleksandr Sharov

Abstract

Money is one of the greatest inventions of the human mind and an effective tool of globalization. At the same time, not only monetary globalization contributes to the process of economic globalization, but globalization itself influences the change in the order of functioning of money (globalization of money), reflected in the modernization of their functions. At the heart of such modernization are the phenomena of Ddestuffation and Dereification of Money. Such changes do not change the Essence of Money, but reflect the increasing Entropy of Money, which in the case of Technological Singularity can lead to the abolition of money (which communist utopians could not achieve) as a result of Money Singularity. And yet, it seems that the Law of the Indestructibility of Money will win again.

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Sharov, O. (2025). DOES MONEY HAVE A FUTURE?. Baltic Journal of Legal and Social Sciences, 15-26. https://doi.org/10.30525/2592-8813-2025-spec-2
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Keywords

Money, Monetary functions, Monetary Globalization, Global Money, Money Entropy, Money Singularity

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