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 I want to introduce here the idea of finance as //settlement//. Let's say, we have a transaction, somebody makes a payment for a service. Finance has to do with bringing that transaction to an end. I want to introduce here the idea of finance as //settlement//. Let's say, we have a transaction, somebody makes a payment for a service. Finance has to do with bringing that transaction to an end.
  
-In the Latin of the late Roman Empire – as Amato and Fantacci explain in their book //The End of Finance// –, //finantia//. meant in fact the 'amicable settlement of a dispute', from FINARE or FINIRE, to terminate, conclude.     +In the Latin of the late Roman Empire – as Amato and Fantacci explain in their book //The End of Finance// –, //finantia// meant in fact the 'amicable settlement of a dispute', from FINARE or FINIRE, to terminate, conclude.     
  
 Likewise, payment comes from the Latin word 'pacare' which means pacify, make peace. Likewise, payment comes from the Latin word 'pacare' which means pacify, make peace.
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