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Gregory Gundersen

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Gregory Gundersen is a researcher in New York.

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The Hierarchy of Money

Money. The villagers are tired of bartering. The dairy farmer wants to buy corn, even when he does not have milk to trade, and the corn farmer wants to buy meat, even when the butcher does not want corn. So they decide that special gray stones that they can collect from a nearby riverbed will represent an abstract…