Money Is a Rumor Everyone Agrees to Believe
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What this talk is about
The Hang Theory. A lecture series by Hang Dallas.
One speaker. One big idea. One good room.
Where · 2700 SWISS Event Space.
Money is a social agreement, not a natural fact. This talk traces how that agreement has been struck and restruck over centuries: from commodity money and coinage to paper notes, central banks, and the digital ledgers that now move billions without a single physical token changing hands. What actually backs a dollar when gold is gone? What happens when the collective belief that holds a currency together begins to crack? Dr. Stephen Quinn walks through the historical architecture of trust that makes money work, and the moments when it has failed.
How the night goes
Doors at 6:00 PM. Come early, grab a drink and something to eat, settle in.
Stephen takes the floor at 7:00 PM.
Questions from the room near 7:45 PM.
Afterward, stay for a glass of wine with Stephen. The best conversations happen then.
Who's speaking
Stephen Quinn
Stephen Quinn is Professor of Economics at Texas Christian University. Steve earned a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois and has published extensively on money and finance in London and Amsterdam in the 17th and 18th centuries. With William Roberds, he published How a Ledger became a Central Bank: A Monetary History of the Bank of Amsterdam (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Steve teaches about the U.S. financial system, past and present. He was selected TCU Honors Professor of the Year by students in 2007.
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2700 SWISS Event Space · Dallas, TX