On the invention of money: notes on sex, adventure, monomaniacal sociopathy and the true function of economics

Anthropologist David Graeber responds to critics who insist that money evolved from barter, a claim with important implications for the discipline of economics, 'human nature', and the possibility of societies without commodities or market exchange.

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