Gresham's law the building of the Temple from the Bible and the Mishna in tractate Bava Metzia () from the Talmud. Ibn Taimiyyah (1263–1328) described the phenomenon as follows: In an influential theoretical article, Rolnick and Weber (1986) argued that bad money would drive good money to a premium, rather than driving it out of circulation. However, their research did not take into account the context in which Gresham had made his observation. Rolnick and Weber ignored the influence of legal tender legislation, which requires people to accept both good and bad money as if they were of equal value. They also
The Good, The Bad, and the Indifferent The Good, The Bad, and the Indifferent The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent is a collection of short stories by American author Joe R. Lansdale, dating from his early career, published in 1997 as a limited edition by Subterranean Press. Many of the stories were never published before and none of which have ever been collected before. This book has sold out both the numbered and lettered editions. The title is a play on Sergio Leone's western film "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". It is the part of a trilogy-of-sorts of Lansdale anthologies, preceded by "A Fist