Melamed’s childhood currency experiences drove his push for currency futures.

Evidence

Melamed, however, had a different idea: futures on currencies. “Currencies had been … really dear to my heart,” he says (Melamed interview). He remembered his father explaining to him the differences between the currencies of the countries they traveled through: Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Japan, and the United States. — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, 642

Categorization

• XREF: Biographical origin story for a financial innovator — parallels the kind of personal-experience origins of market inventions that animate the performativity literature.