剧情简介:This book concerns barter, a transaction in which objects are exchanged directly for one another without the use of money. Economists treat barter as an inefficient alternative to market exchange, and assume that it is normal only in 'primitive' economies or marks the breakdown of more developed exchange mechanisms. For their part, anthropologists have been more interested in t...(展开全部)
作者:Caroline Humphrey
出版社:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521406826