The fact that Radisson is only briefly mentioned in the footnotes of others’ textbooks proves, once again, that the devil really is in the details.
The fact that Radisson is only briefly mentioned in the footnotes of others’ textbooks proves, once again, that the devil really is in the details.
There has been barter of course, but as Graeber explains, most of the time this was in the context of people who were already familiar with the concept of money, or had low systems of trust. So what preceded money? Another old concept—debt.