Question

During wartime, a small country issued certificates to the public to raise money. Each certificate promised to pay the holder a certain amount in silver. After the war was over, the population continued exchanging these certificates instead of converting them to silver. What type of money did this economy use?
A.
commodity
B.
fiat
C.
representative
D.
precious metal

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Representative economy

Explanation:

Representative money refers to something without any intrinsic value that can be used as a medium of exchange.  

Even though that medium does not necessarily have intrinsic value, it can be considered something that desired when the majority of people in that society accepted it as a medium of exchange.

In the example above,

The certificate is just a piece of paper. Outside of the war period, that paper will have no value in that society.

But, during wartime people realized that they need to do something drastic to survive, so the majority of the people in that small country acknowledge that piece of paper as something valuable.