“In fact, our standard account of monetary history is precisely backwards. We did not begin with barter, discover money, and then eventually develop credit systems. It happened precisely the other way around.”
Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Two, "The Myth of Barter", p. 40
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