Article: On ensuring the acceptability of a new fiat money. (problems with introducing new money systems without links to established currencies)

What are the requirements--legal, institutional, and psychological--for the successful introduction of a new fiat money, involving not the mere re-denomination of an existing money but a genuine change in regime? Contemporary monetary analysis, relying almost exclusively on a Walrasian equilibrium framework, has little to say on the question.(1) Indeed, to the extent that it suggests anything at all, conventional analysis suggests that the success of a monetary reform like those now being contemplated by the former Soviet republics is a simple matter of the reforming government's indicating to the public which paper units are intended to represent some new monetary unit.

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