Show me the Money
Medium of exchange, store of value, and unit of account - the three of THESE that money performs
What are the three FUNCTIONS of money?
This Swedish activist was 15 when she told leaders at COP24 in 2018 that they were failing her generation
Who is Greta Thunberg?
This theory says that right action delivers the greatest good for the greatest number.
What is utilitarianism?
Considered normal, with ideas and beliefs accepted by most people - the opposite of "fringes"
What is mainstream?
The chemical symbol for Gold
This "law" holds that bad money drives out good: people hoard the valuable coins and spend the debased ones
What is Gresham's Law?
A polemic uses craft and evidence strategically; this is the emotional outburst it's often confused with.
What is a rant?
This medieval thinker tried to reconcile faith and reason, building on Aristotle and Jesus.
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
What is a subculture?
Which sea dried mostly up due to climate change (before some reversals)?
What is the Aral Sea?
Zimbabwe in the 2000s endured this runaway price spiral...
What is hyperinflation?
This Dr. Seuss character "speaks for the trees" in our early example of environmental polemic.
Who is the Lorax?
What is virtue?
This British teen left East London in 2015 to join ISIS and later had her UK citizenship revoked - your case study in competing narratives.
Who is Shamima Begum?
This mountain range is the traditional dividing line between Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains
This economist's ideas shaped Roosevelt's response to the Great Depression and the move off the gold standard
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
Levi-Strauss noted polemics lean on these pairs "the many vs the few" etc, with no middle ground.
What are binary oppositions?
Kierkegaard said that beyond reason, humans must take this - suspending pure logic for belief.
What is a leap of faith?
This theory holds that much of what we treat as reality depends on shared assumptions--"society is a human product" (Berger & Luckmann)
What is social constructionism?
The 2008 crisis accelerated when this US investment bank collapsed in September.
What is Lehman Brothers?
This "Dilemma" names the tension the US faces using the dollar as both it's national currency AND the world's reserve currency.
What is the Triffin Dilemma?
This term names the idea that those least responsibly for emissions often suffer the most from them.
What is climate justice?
From the Greek for "purpose", this is the idea that everyone has a telos defined by it's nature.
UNESCO defines this as the process of moving individuals towards beliefs deemed "extreme" by the status quo.
What is radicalization?
Signed in 1215, this document limited the power of the English King
What is the Magna Carta?