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Conflict reigns over the history and origins of money

Bruce Bower  |  July 31, 2018

“… As cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin multiply into a flock of digital apparitions, researchers are still battling over how and where money came to be. … a growing number of anthropologists and archaeologists, holding a revisionist view, say that economists’ standard story is bankrupt. … Early governments created money to pay off public works debts and to collect taxes, Rosenswig contends.” 

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