Read_943 - The Fabric of Desires

<p><em><strong>"It is not markets that made money possible. It is collectibles, which we now call money, that make markets possible."</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>~ Nick Szabo</strong></em><em><strong><a href="jan3.com/author/nick"></a></s…;
<p>What if everything we've been told about how money emerged is backwards? Nick Szabo's first article in nearly a decade tells the story of a stolen canoe, a tribal feud, and a string of shells – and uses it to challenge one of the most repeated ideas in economics. Did money come from barter, or did it come from something far older and far more human?</p>
<p>Check out the original article: <a href="jan3.com/blog/the-fabric-of-desires">The Fabric of Desires</a> by Nick Szabo (Link: jan3.com/blog/the-fabric-of-desires)</p>
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<li><a href="unenumerated.blogspot.com/"></a>… Szabo's blog, <a href="unenumerated.blogspot.com/">Unenumerat…; – where so much of his foundational writing lives (Link: unenumerated.blogspot.com)</li>
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<li><a href="nakamotoinstitute.org/">The Nakamoto Institute:</a> the best archive there is for Szabo's work and early Bitcoin thought (Link: nakamotoinstitute.org/<a href="nakamotoinstitute.org/"></a>;)</li>
<li>Carl Menger's <a href="socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/menger/mone… the Origins of Money</a> – worth reading even where I think it falls short (Link: socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/menger/mone…)</li>
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