And just as her demand summed up the materialist greed of the Eighties, could a model falling for the European super-currency herald a new era?
It is a very human book – rarely does Popper get bogged down in technical terms – and it makes it clear that Bitcoin is a boon more for business and less a technoutopianist super-currency.
As The Huffington Post's Sam Stein reported in April, "Participants who undertake campaign activities -- phone banking, neighborhood canvassing, field program volunteering and others -- will be rewarded the equivalent of super PAC currency.
How he responds to the morass in Afghanistan and the brewing nuclear threat in Iran will determine how much U.S. Super Power currency we will have around the world for many years to come; long after President Obama is gone from office.
Although Brazil's super-strong currency may bring fears of deindustrialisation, it also makes all kinds of imports cheaper.
Australian schools, thanks to a super-strong currency, have already seen the price that foreign students pay rocket in recent years.
How ironic that a European Union that designed in "subsidiarity" as a political insurance policy, is collapsing partly because its super-size currency is chronically incapable of meeting the needs of such a diverse range of economies.
The dollar also struggled after China renewed its call for a super-sovereign currency, and the market's improved risk appetite undercut the greenback's utility as a safe-haven investment.
Actually, maintaining the customary Chinese discretion, Zhou never mentioned the state of the U.S. dollar in his article, nor did he even imply that the yuan should be included in the super-sovereign currency he proposed.
After the Asian crisis in 1997, super-competitive currencies helped exports to boom, but domestic demand has lagged.
