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The Myth of Barter
The myth of barter cannot go away because it is central to the entire discourse of economics. The reason that economic text books now begin with imaginary villages is because it has been impossible to talk about real ones, writes Ravi Agrawal. Even some economists have been forced to admit that smith's land of barter doesn't really exist.