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134 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 10 Jun \ on: Clay Tablets Show Markets Worked 4,000 Years Before Economists Explained Them history econ
No one had yet written a sentence about markets.

I suspect that is false. No surviving text does not imply that nothing was written.

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72 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 10 Jun

Yeah, it COULD be false!

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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 10 Jun

I'm sure the spirit of it is correct. No doubt there was market activity before people wrote descriptions of how markets work.

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98 sats \ 0 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 11 Jun

this. if anything the scholarship has degraded over time to justify the entire system of inflationary banking we live in. the commentary and analysis from the 20th century in the west has been disastrous to whole nations. recording prices and contracts is just par for the course and far closer to a truth than the apologetics we get now

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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @teemupleb 11 Jun

Maybe the author of the article used some free tier LLM to generate the text

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