[A-List] barter is a blind

["ewc" <ewc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Anne Williamson" <annewilliamson@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 21:26:42 -0400

..........money as an economic tool of
> measure and of exchange (which thereby allows man to not only avoid
the
> clumsy quagmire of barter and to plan his economic activity
rationally...........

An not sure which bible you are quoting here Anne - is it Samuelson or
Aristotle?

Either way I feel, by following them, you are selling 'money' short.

First use of coins, in Europe, in India and in China, coincides with
first attempts at objective historical writing, and with first
attempts at open debate of politics, governments, (anti) slavery,
atheism etc etc etc.  This cannot be a coincidence.

Wray's review of Kurke (Origins of coins) is on the web and well worth
reading in this regard.

But more power to your fingertips on most of the rest

ewc