Anything can serve as money that habit or social convention and successful experience endow with the qualiti of general acceptability:
As town life grew more vigorous, craft guilds assumed greater importance, reaching their peak in the 17th century:
In XX century factories divided the work previously done by a single craftsman into a number of distinct tasks:
Money is defined as a commodity accepted by general consent as a medium of economic exchange:
People accept money as such because they know that others will:
The colonies of the New World provided Europe's cities with agricultural products, often produced by slaves:
The major activity of early humans was hunting and gathering food:
The pieces of paper are valuable because everyone thinks they are, and everyone thinks they are because in his experience they always have been:
Work in economics and sociology, is understood as the aktivities and labour necessary to the survival of society: