"Also, he claims there are no historical examples actual barter, and in the same article describes Egypt as not having debt and interest ( but Mesopotamia does). Egypt had "trade" so , without money and interest , they had barter."
please actually read the book. i finished reading my copy 2 weeks ago, i'm willing to send it to you if you want. he does not say that there are no examples of actual barter. he says there is no such thing as a barter economy (defined as a series of spot exchange transactions). the fact that barter happens occasionally between strangers who have no obligation to treat each other well is not surprising and doesn't contradict the argument. there is no historical evidence for a moneyless society bartering with their next door neighbor or anyone they regularly interact with. goods were distributed in various customary ways, but not through barter. -Nathan Tankus _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
