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Topic
Board Economics
Re: What is special for a currency
by
myrkul
on 08/05/2013, 19:47:01 UTC
In this case, there is no money involved, the consumption ends when I ate the lunch and his children ate the apples, nothing left, no futher economy activities

Except the $10 he didn't have to spend at the market for apples got spent elsewhere, creating economic activity.

Money is just grease for the gears of commerce. They still move if you're bartering, just less smoothly.