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Re:The Invention of Money by JackFr on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @01:25PM (#20567011)
> The classic economy-textbook idea that we invented currency so we don't have to barter with the goods we produce has never been observed in history.

http://icm.clsbe.lisboa.ucp.pt/docentes/url/jcn/ie2/0POWCamp...

Cigarettes were the numeraire for all transactions for the sake of efficiency.

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Re:The Invention of Money by sdenton4 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @01:47PM (#20567280)
That's addressed in the book: the cigarette economy is aping an existing cash+capitalistic economy, and thus doesn't provide a template for the evolution of a monetary economy from scratch.
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