Although most of the money supply would continue to be created and destroyed locally as loans, there would still be a need for the government-issued currency envisioned by the early populists, to fill gaps in demand as needed to keep supply and demand in balance.
An earlier populist measure, put in place a decade ago, required major French museums to offer free admission on the first Sunday of every month.
Today's sentiments derive from the same views that propelled earlier populist movements, she said: those who consider themselves not to be elite also feel they are being overlooked.
One of the earliest populists to rise to prominence was Austria's Jörg Haider, a slick, charismatic politician from Carinthia.
In early American history, populist sentiments led farmers to rebel against more urban coastal elites.
Left-leaning delegates in Dresden voted to back a wealth tax, which Mr Gabriel's wing of the party had earlier rejected as populist.
The alliance with the Communists lasted until 2002, when Unity, which had earlier absorbed the populist Fatherland bloc, was strong enough to control the Duma alone.
It must be remembered that Jews were comparatively rare in Elizabethan England – they had been "expelled" three centuries earlier – so the populist fear of them that the play taps into was essentially folkloric.
