The Human Economy

Money almost always arises from objects that are used primarily as adornment of the person. Rafaa cloth was used for clothing in douglas's day, it was the main thing used to clothe the human body. The brass rods used by the tive might seem an exception, but actually they are not. It also illustrates the peculiar progression of ideas that so often mark human economies. On the one hand, human life is the absolute value. There is no possible equivalent. Whether a life is given or taken, the debt is absolute. In places, this principle is indeed sacrosanct. More often, it is compromised by the elaborate games played by the tives and lelay