“Before we can apply the tools of anthropology to reconstruct the real history of money, we need to understand what's wrong with the conventional account.”

Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Two, "The Myth of Barter", p. 22

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American anthropologist and anarchist 1961

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