The strange economics of setting your own cash on fire
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June 3, 2026
In The Armchair Economist , Steven Landsburg makes the case that burning your own money is a form of philanthropy. Destroy a banknote, he argues, and "all surviving money slightly increases in value," so everyone else gains wealth in proportion to what they already hold. — Read the rest
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