voprecotestВопросы экономикиVoprosy Ekonomiki0042-8736Voprosy Ekonomiki, NP10.32609/0042-8736-2025-3-137-157voprecotest-5279Research ArticleЭКОНОМИЧЕСКАЯ ИСТОРИЯ И ИСТОРИЯ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЙ МЫСЛИECONOMIC HISTORY AND HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHTМеждународная валюта, основанная на ресурсах. История одной идеи, разделяемой экономистами разных школAn international resource-based currency. The history of an idea shared by economists of different schoolshttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9544-9024НеновскиН. Н.NenovskyN. N.

Неновски Николай Ненов, д. э. н., ординарный проф.Университета Пикардии Жюля Верна, ассоциированный научный сотрудникНИУ ВШЭ и Университета национального и мирового хозяйства (Университет за национално и световно стопанство)

Москва

Moscow

nenovsky@gmail.comУниверситет Пикардии Жюля Верна ; Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики» ; Университет национального и мирового хозяйстваРоссияUniversity of Picardie Jules Verne; HSE University; University for National and World EconomyRussian Federation20250203202503137157Copyright © Voprosy Ekonomiki, NP, 20252025Voprosy Ekonomiki, NPVoprosy Ekonomiki, NPhttps://www.vopreco.ru/jour/about/submissions#copyrightNoticehttps://www.vopreco.ru/jour/article/view/5279

Фрагментация международной финансовой системы, изменение глобальной экономики и борьба за ресурсы остро ставят вопрос о международных платежах и деньгах. Современные технологии позволяют организовать международную валюту на сырьевой/ресурсной основе в рамках определенной группы стран, регионального блока (БРИКС, Африка, регион Персидского залива и т.  д.), а также существенно снизить трансакционные издержки поддержания системы. Распространение этой идеи заставляет вернуться к ее интеллектуальной истории. Изложена суть дискуссий в прошлом, включая позиции ведущих экономистов, принадлежавших к различным школам, которые поддержали идею международной валюты, основанной на ресурсах. Особое внимание уделяется неизвестным именам и отцам идеи — Б. и Ф. Грэмам и голландцу Я. Гудриаану. Сделана попытка объяснить такую форму консенсуса по поводу международного валютного субстанциализма.

The fragmentation of international financial systems, the reshaping of the global economy, and the scramble for resources, stand acutely the question of international payments and money. Modern technologies make possible to organize international currency based on commodities/resources, within a certain group of countries, a regional bloc (BRICS, Africa, Gulf region, etc.), and significantly reduce the transaction costs of maintaining the system. The spread of this idea leads us to return to its intellectual history. In this paper, we outline the main point of the debates in the past, including the positions of the leading economists of different schools who have supported the idea of resource based international currency, such as Jevons, Fisher, Hayek, Friedman, Keynes, Tinbergen, Kaldor, Cooper, Yeager, several French politicians and scholars (such as the PM Pierre Mendes France, Jean de Larentaye, Gabriel Ardant), etc. Special attention is paid to the unknown names in the discussions, and indeed, the fathers of the idea — to Benjamin and Frank Graham, and the Dutchman Jan Goudriaan. An attempt is made to explain this form of consensus on international monetary substantialism.

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