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  • ECONOMICS, ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE ORIGIN OF MONEY AS A BARGAINING COUNTER
    PATRICK SPREAD
    For many decades economists have disputed with economic anthropologists over the origins of money. Economists claim that money emerged from barter exchange; anthropologists claim that it originated as a ‘unit of account’ in the temples and palaces of ancient Mesopotamia. This book argues that money originated as a bargaining counter in a system of money-bargaining, emerging alm...

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  • ECONOMICS FOR AN INFORMATION AGE
    PATRICK SPREAD
    Economics for an Information Age examines the central role of information within economics and society. The neoclassical economic model, taught as ‘mainstream economics’ in universities around the world, relies on a mathematical model of ‘resource allocation’ in which private advantage gives rise to public advantage in the shape of an optimal allocation of resources. However, t...

    $1,260.00

  • THE EVOLUTION OF ECONOMIES
    PATRICK SPREAD
    It is clear even to casual observation that economies evolve from year to year and over centuries. Yet mainstream economic theory assumes that economies always move towards equilibrium. One consequence of this is that mainstream theory is unable to deal with economic history. The Evolution of Economies provides a clear account of how economies evolve under a process of support-...

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  • SUPPORT-BARGAINING, ECONOMICS AND SOCIETY
    PATRICK SPREAD
    Support-Bargaining, Economics and Society links support-bargaining to Darwin's theory of natural selection and traces the implications of support-bargaining and money-bargaining across society. It provides a wholly different account of the functioning of human societies from anything that has gone before. Social scientists, ever since there have been such people, have missed th...

    $1,460.00