Re:Was early modern writing paper expensive? (2018]
by JumpCrisscross on Saturday July 27, 2024 @08:06PM
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> Is the price of an impossible (or, period-impossible) object a knowable quantity, economically speaking?
Yes. We estimate what someone in that world would pay for it. A satellite phone in a world without satellites, electricity or other satellite phones is at best a novelty. So we'd look to rates paid by kings and collectors for similar antiquities.
Yes. We estimate what someone in that world would pay for it. A satellite phone in a world without satellites, electricity or other satellite phones is at best a novelty. So we'd look to rates paid by kings and collectors for similar antiquities.