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May 24: Adam Smith's WEALTH OF NATIONS

They Had No Money—Yet Bought and Sold

Debts were not always paid in money. Not so long ago the
butcher paid for his keg of beer with a slab of beef, and oxen
were exchanged for land and wives. Adam Smith tells the interesting
story of the origin and use of money.

Read from Adam Smith's WEALTH OF NATIONS ......  Vol. 10, pp. 22-33