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Marx complained in his Theses on Feurerbach that Philosophers have merely interpreted the world, the point is to change it. But his generalization is mistaken when it comes to the British empiricists: Locke, Berkeley and Hume. These philosophers were deeply involved in changing the capitalist world's great agent of change: money. They all developed a philosophy of money and attempted to transform monetary institutions accordingly. Locke's most important intervention in the monetary sphere was his role in the recoinage crisis of the mid-1 690s.1 In 1 737 Berkeley launched a campaign to institute paper currency and a National Bank in Ireland.2 Hume discussed the relation between money and civilization in his
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