Gresham's law

monetary principle on circulating currency; "bad money drives out good"
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Gresham's law

Summary

Gresham's law is a principle[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of principle entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (718 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Gresham's law's instance of is recorded as principle[3].
  • Gresham's law's instance of is recorded as economic concept[4].
  • Gresham's law's instance of is recorded as Epigrammatic law[5].
  • Thomas Gresham is named after Gresham's law[6].
  • Gresham's law's GND ID is recorded as 4202324-5[7].
  • Gresham's law's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85057314[8].
  • Gresham's law's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119779772[9].
  • Gresham's law's IdRef ID is recorded as 027819949[10].
  • Gresham's law's Commons category is recorded as Gresham's law[11].
  • Gresham's law's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cb50[12].
  • Gresham's law's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • Gresham's law's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Greshams-law[14].
  • Gresham's law's FAST ID is recorded as 947844[15].
  • Gresham's law's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2095187[16].
  • Gresham's law's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as greshams-law[17].
  • Gresham's law's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Greshams_lov[18].
  • Gresham's law's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 170120187[19].
  • Gresham's law's EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID is recorded as greshams-law[20].
  • Gresham's law's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007540803105171[21].
  • Gresham's law's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 그레샴의 법칙[22].
  • Gresham's law's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 317331[23].
  • Gresham's law's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 527540[24].
  • Gresham's law's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as zakon-kopernika-greshema-2fc0b4[25].
  • Gresham's law's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/89ace0b8-c6b4-47c7-9687-4f7a59e09fb6[26].

Why It Matters

Gresham's law ranks in the top 6% of principle entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (718 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . SUDOC. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] . Faceted Application of Subject Terminology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  19. [21] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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