Apart from its intrinsic interest, history can often shed light on current political controversies. Many political disputes revolve around questions of economics and of all the matters that fall under the purview of economic history there is one that has had, and still has, a profound impact on many aspects of everyone's daily life, and that is money.
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The Potlatch, Gift Exchange and Barter.
Money is often, mistakenly, thought to have been invented simply because of the inconvenience of barter. In fact the development of money was due to many cause…
