Domain Musings

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Speculative notes on the finance domain — on money, value, currency, trading and the philosophy of modeling the field. These started life inside the ORE Studio project docs but felt more at home here, as ramblings rather than reference material.

Page Topic
Computational Finance Intro to the field and scoping the ambitions of the project.
Money A working definition of money, rooted in Wikipedia.
Functions of Money Medium of exchange, store of value, unit of account.
Kinds of Money Historical evolution: commodity, fiat, and beyond.
Money and its Close Relatives Concepts adjacent to money.
Currency The concept of currency, distinct from money.
Cash Cash, liquidity, and the friction of asset conversion.
Trading Valuation, value and the mechanics of exchange.
Finance and Modeling A meta-essay on modeling rigour in finance versus established fields.

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