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  "abstract": "This work is the foundational monograph of Evolutionary Finance within the Giant‑Gate Paradigm. Adopting a question‑and‑answer format, it applies the dual‑civilization comparative empirical approach that combines archaeological relics and archival documents from both Chinese and global ancient civilizations.\n\nIt puts forward three universal natural laws of finance: the Law of Dimensional‑Reduction, the Law of Potential‑Difference, and the Law of Order. The core dialectical conclusion: the general long‑term civilizational trend of finance is dematerialization of value carriers, while short‑term policy interventions aim to restrain virtual‑economy excess and return to real economy.\n\nThis book reconstructs six complete evolutionary transitions of human finance: physical‑goods standard → precious‑metal standard → credit‑fiat standard → digital‑currency standard → AI‑quantitative‑driven finance, and further carries out sandbox scenario deduction for the carbon‑silicon co‑existence era.\n\nIt revises common misconceptions: finance originates from survival plunder, and exchange emerged as a compromise when plunder became too costly. All arguments are supported by paired historical artifacts, avoiding pure speculative narration. This preprint is for academic provenance and citation purposes only.",
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  "title": "A Brief History of Finance: Ten‑Thousand‑Year Elegy for Financial Evolution",
  "title_text": "A Brief History of Finance: Ten‑Thousand‑Year Elegy for Financial Evolution",
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