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Economics History on Barter System

Economics History on Barter System

Haque, S. a. U.

Paperback

EconomicsAnthropologyArchitecture History

ISBN10: 3384589025
ISBN13: 9783384589026
Publisher: Azhar Sario Hungary
Published: Apr 21 2025
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Dive into the fascinating world of barter, where goods and trust shaped economies long before coins and cash! Economic History on Barter System takes you on a journey through time, exploring how humans traded without money. This book unpacks the barter system from its earliest roots to modern-day swaps. It starts with the basics: defining barter, its challenges, and how thinkers like Adam Smith and Karl Marx viewed it. You'll dig into prehistoric exchanges, from shells to stones, and see how they built social bonds. The book covers ancient civilizations like Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley, where temples and standardized weights made trade hum. It also dives into indigenous systems across North America, Africa, and Oceania, showing how barter intertwined with culture and politics. You'll explore the Silk Road's mix of barter and coins, colonial trade's harsh realities, and barter's resurgence in crises like Weimar Germany or modern Venezuela. Modern twists-like corporate barter and government countertrade-round out the story. Each chapter blends archaeology, anthropology, and economics to reveal barter's complexity.

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