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The Phantasy World of Barter
The story f money, for economists always begins with the phantasy world of barter. One textbook by economists joseph stigletz and john driffle takes us to what appears to be an imaginary new england or midwestern town. The problem is where to locate this phantasy in time and space? Are we talking about cave men? Pacific islanders, the american frontier?