From: Rakesh Bhandari (rakeshb@STANFORD.EDU)
Date: Sun Feb 08 2004 - 13:18:03 EST
> At every point the movement of Marx's dialectical >> analysis (the inadequacies or incompleteness of the lower forms of >> value) reproduces (or claims to reproduce) the actual historical >> movement. Money did grow out of barter. > >Ploanyi's account in Trade and Markets in Early Empires, seems to >suggest it is a bit more complicated than that. I am sure it is. Not clear from your comments as to what Polanyi's correction would be. Does he subscribe to a chartalist theory of money? By the way, a very provocative analysis of Polanyi's work in Godelier's The Mental and the Material. Don't know whether a Polanyi student has responded to it. rb
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