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the passing of trade and sumptuary laws that would cause commodities that were common one day to become scarce the next and vice versa

takes as doxa that liberal democratic states are less warlike

the free market represents the apogee of the Enlightenment

a bullyboy paean to "the West" as the seat of progress in an otherwise dark world.

The coin here might be read as a material allegory, or in some sense a synecdoche (a small part which represents the whole) of capital itself.