Как люди платили за вещи до появления денег?
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Как люди платили за вещи до появления денег?
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Boom & Bust
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Вам говорили, что до появления денег люди меняли коз на горшки. Антропологи отправились искать этот мир – и так его и не нашли. Вот как люди на самом деле расплачивались тысячи лет и почему ответ прямо сейчас лежит у вас в кошельке.
0:00 Intro
0:42 The story everyone believed
1:42 I'll owe you
2:39 Debt on clay
3:34 The goat that grew
4:30 Sticks and stones
5:30 Coins came late
6:05 When money disappears
7:20 Back to your wallet
📚 SOURCES
▸ Adam Smith – An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), the butcher, brewer and baker passage.
▸ Caroline Humphrey – "Barter and Economic Disintegration", Man (1985): "No example of a barter economy, pure and simple, has ever been described, let alone the emergence from it of money."
▸ David Graeber – Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011).
▸ Code of Hammurabi, laws on tavern keepers and credit repaid in grain at harvest.
▸ Ammi-saduqa of Babylon (c. 1646–1626 BC) – edict cancelling debts of grain and silver (Encyclopaedia Britannica).
▸ Michael Hudson – "The Origins and Nature of Bronze-Age Interest Rates": Sumerian "máš" meant both interest and a young animal (kid).
▸ Samuel Noah Kramer – The Sumerians (1963): "amargi", freedom, literally "return to the mother" (Urukagina's reforms).
▸ UK Parliament / Burning of Parliament, 16 October 1834 – Exchequer tally sticks burned in the furnaces under the House of Lords; tallies abolished from 1826.
▸ William Henry Furness – The Island of Stone Money (1910); Milton Friedman, "The Island of Stone Money" (1991). The sunken stone is a story recorded by Furness.
▸ Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin 2014 Q1 – "Money in the modern economy": 97% of the money held by the public is bank deposits.
▸ R. A. Radford – "The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp", Economica (1945): cigarettes as currency in a German POW camp.
▸ Argentina's barter clubs (Red Global de Trueque) and their "créditos", 2001–2003 crisis – Wikipedia: Crédito (Argentina) and contemporary reporting; ~2.5 million users at the peak.
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