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 the precious metals: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Place of publication:
London
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Year of first publication:
1880
Year of current publication:
1880
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English
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Book