Saturday, February 20, 2021

How to write a Flintstones history of money — Brett Scott


How projecting the present onto the past to explain history is misleading.

Altered States of Money
How to write a Flintstones history of money
Brett Scott

1 comment:

Matt Franko said...

“He then uses this to explain the emergence of money, which is a pure example of a shoddy, presentist, teleological Flintstones history of money, and one that is still widely used.“

But this same guy is alleging that the ancient Greeks had a time machine and went forward in time to the Roman pantheon to get the name of that future empires goddess of the protectress of funds (Moneta) to make a figure of speech and then get back in time machine to go back in time to Greece and say they had “money!” system...