Ultimately an economy has to meet the fundamental physical needs of human beings (at least until we're all Singularitied into Hive Mind Cryostatsis Upload Tanks or equivalent). That's food, clothing, shelter, and the rest of it --- the base of Maslow's Pyramid.
More money can solve some distributional probems, but ultimately not the problem of insufficient production or supply.
The classic "toy economy" example of this is "The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp", which looks at the use of cigarette-based currency within a World War II prisoner of war camp.
It's not a perfect analogue of a true economy (goods were largely supplied to the camp through the German authorities and Red Cross shipments, there was little actual production or labour). But what was illustrated were both price fluctuations as the currency (cigarettes) increased and decreased in prevalence, subject to an innate destructive demand (habitual smokers). And when the actual supply of goods (food and other items) dried up late in the war, no amount of currency could in fact make the camp economy function.
More money can solve some distributional probems, but ultimately not the problem of insufficient production or supply.
The classic "toy economy" example of this is "The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp", which looks at the use of cigarette-based currency within a World War II prisoner of war camp.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2550133
It's not a perfect analogue of a true economy (goods were largely supplied to the camp through the German authorities and Red Cross shipments, there was little actual production or labour). But what was illustrated were both price fluctuations as the currency (cigarettes) increased and decreased in prevalence, subject to an innate destructive demand (habitual smokers). And when the actual supply of goods (food and other items) dried up late in the war, no amount of currency could in fact make the camp economy function.