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What Could A Better Economy Look Like?

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The Gift Economy: A Quick and Dirty Tour

Ilana Strauss: How did our current economy happen? She says it all starts about 400,000 years ago in the Alor-Gasaile Basin in southern Kenya. Before money, we were stuck in this unfortunate situation where we had to trade with each other,. Strauss: Instead, one system that we know people operated under was a gift economy.

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