barter economy
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barter
noun[U]
uk/ˈbɑː.tər/us/ˈbɑːr.t̬ɚ/
the act or system of ...
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economy
noun
uk/iˈkɒn.ə.mi/us/iˈkɑː.nə.mi/
the system of trade and industry by which the wealth of a country is made ...
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(Definition ofbarterandeconomyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We determine the specialization level in a purebartereconomyas the benchmark.
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The concessionary companies, active until the late 1920s, imposed abartereconomythat deliberately prevented any substantial monetary exchanges.
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However, the economy described by the assumptions in the theorems is really abartereconomy.
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Amidst abartereconomythe missions reckoned accounts with numerical exactitude.
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If the extent of consumption risk facing agents is identical tobartereconomy, so is the equilibrium level of specialization.
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If both sectors are active and the use of bills is limited in the organized markets, the level of specialization is identical to that in the purebartereconomy.
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A return was made by people in their daily lives to a primitivebartereconomy.
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The monetary economy persisted, but thebartereconomyexperienced a revival as well.
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In practice, the currency was nearly worthless and largely supplanted by abartereconomy(commonly, cigarette currency).
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This is abartereconomywith no money, so cherries are traded for apples and vice versa.
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The financial infrastructure collapsed during the war as inflation destroyed banks and forced a move toward abartereconomyfor civilians.
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Mises explained that moneys only can come about after there has been a demand for the money commodity in abartereconomy.
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He lectured against the use of money, advocating a simplebartereconomyamong neighbors.
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After basic exchange came into existence, more complex forms developed beyond a basicbartereconomy, and new forms of risk manifested.
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About 1885, the traders began to transform from abartereconomyto a credit system.
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The organization of a gift economy stands in contrast to abartereconomyor a market economy.
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The closed household economy and thebartereconomyare together referred to as "non-monetary economies".
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The "closed household economy" contrasts with abartereconomy, in which goods are bartered (traded against each other), and a monetary economy, in which goods are traded for money.
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A vital aspect of economies at this time was that they were transforming from barter economies to money economies.
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