Barter, Economic Emperors, and the Decentralized Marketplace

Colin Read

Chapter 2 in The Rise and Fall of an Economic Empire, 2010, pp 13-21 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The most basic markets are as old as agrarian economies themselves. It is agrarian surpluses that motivated the creation of market economies. We will consider the source of these surpluses in the next chapter. We first address the role of markets themselves.

Keywords: Central Authority; Common Currency; Central Planner; Underground Economy; Control Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230297074_3

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