RE: Argument for historical existence of barter
I remember being told by an American history professor about how corn
and rye whiskies were used as 'currency' for trade, from Pittsburgh to
New Orleans.
See:
http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/northamerica.html
Forms of Money in use in th
One way to infer, perhaps, that much of historical commodity exchange
is barter or without money is to consider that general use of paper as
money is historically recent . So, the money of most of the time of
history is gold or valuable metal. Only a limited amount of coins
would have been minted
