No example of a barter economy, pure and simple, has ever been described, let alone the emergence from it of money; all available ethnography suggests that there never has been such a thing Caroline Humphrey, Barter and Economic Disintegration (1985)

A history of money in ancient countries from the earliest times to the present

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London
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1885
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1885
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English
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Author died more than 70 years ago
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Book