> [!info] Context > the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth. ## Literature Notes - [[Brotherhood of Kings by Amanda Podany#Syria was a clearinghouse for the Far East trade and diplomacy]] - [[Human-Animal Entanglements in the Neolithic]] covers the mixed hunter/gatherer + agriculture/herding economies of neolithic towns. - [[The Horse The Wheel And Language by David Anthony#ch09p191 Cows Social Power and the Emergence of Tribes]] -- stockbreeding is a volatile economy in which herders who lose animals borrow from those who have animals. ## Atomic Notes - [[the stock market is fancy gambling]] is my rant about how the stock market is basically government-sanctioned gambling, and nothing I've read in [Matt Levine's newsletter](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthew-s-levine) has fundamentally changed my mind. - [[tribute economies]] ## Pending Articles - [[Alternatives to Money]] ## External References - Found this [fascinating history of the pound vs the dollary](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/m3up5n/australia_new_zealand_and_canada_all_switched/) on [[rAskHistorians]] that details how the pound is not uniquely British, and the dollar is not uniquely American. - [this article](https://medium.com/adjacent-possible/the-economics-of-science-fiction-c8a3b7fd21a5) about the economics of sf ## Raw Dumps - [[David Graeber Economics]] is a discussion I had with someone in discord where I fundamentally disagree with stuff that David Graeber has to say about economics because the original presentation seemed painfully Eurocentric. ## Newsletters - [[Coins and Commodity Money]] was the basis for [[2021-01-11 Currency (DRAFT)]] ## Daily Notes ![[2021-03-12#^b9a9c8]]