TY - T1 - Reflections on the ontology of money SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/340746 T3 - A1 - Mäki, Uskali A2 - PB - Y1 - 2021 LA - eng AB - The suggestions outlined here include the following. Money is a bundle of institutionally sustained causal powers. Money is an institutional universal instantiated in generic currencies and particular money tokens. John Searle's account of institutional facts is not helpful for understanding the nature of money as an institution (while it may help to illuminate aspects of the nature of currencies and money particulars). The money universal is not a social convention in David Lewis's sense (while... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - Causal powers; Convention; Currency; Existence; Institution; Institutional fact; Money; Realism; Searle; Social ontology; 511 Economics; 611 Philosophy N1 - PP - ER -