{"id":28523,"date":"2023-07-11T08:32:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=28523"},"modified":"2023-07-11T08:32:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:32:49","slug":"the-myth-of-the-barter-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=28523","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of the Barter Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Adam Smith said that quid-pro-quo exchange systems preceded economies based on currency, but there\u2019s no evidence that he was right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2016\/02\/barter-society-myth\/471051\/\">The Myth of the Barter Economy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Smith said that quid-pro-quo exchange systems preceded economies based on currency,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[18,235],"class_list":["post-28523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-economics","tag-money","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28525,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28523\/revisions\/28525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}