> Economic history states that money replaced a bartering system, yet > there isn't any evidence to support this axiom. Anthropologist Graeber > presents a stunning reversal of this conventional wisdom. For more than > 5,000 years humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell > goods. Since the beginning of the agrarian empires, humans have been > divided into debtors and creditors. Through time, virtual credit money > was replaced by gold and the system as a whole went into decline. This > fascinating history is told for the first time.
is this true of ancient Egypt? -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
