Re: actual sado-monetarism

[Daniel Davies <dsquared@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

no but I'll look it up.  Mark Steel (warning SWP member) touches on Isaac
Newton's career as a counterfeiter-catcher in his lecture on the subject

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/marksteel_newton.shtml

dd

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Has anybody looked at

Wennerlind, Carl. 2004. 2004. "The Death Penalty as Monetary Policy: The
Practice and Punishment of Monetary Crime, 1690-1830."  History of
Political Economy, 36: 1 (Spring): pp. 131-61?

It is a fascinating discussion of the death penalty for counterfeiters.
Newton was the head honcho.  I have not had a chance to look at one of
the references.
Craig, John. 1958. "Isaac Newton -- Crime Investigator." Nature, 182:
4629, 149-52.

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