uhh, yeah, there were a few hundred thousand years of human history before there were anything like markets. gift and barter economies for most of it. if you actually have to work to overcome the 'market as default' thought, just shows how much koolaid you've consumed.
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you need a lot of consensus (and a lot of infrastructure) before you can have anything called a "market"
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I would have to understand that with a bit more clarity. Markets are created by use of law to suppress involuntary transfers across the spectrum from the most obviously physical to the most abstractly normative as to decrease costs. (Barter(goods),Trade (money), Markets (prices))
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Who's "we", white man? There are at least a few of us who consider economism to be our time's equivalent of medieval christianity, the water we swim in so few even know it is there. Discussed this w/ my brother as we walked through the Getty Museum looking at that art+worldview.
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I think that blog post/essay you shared Friday was about this?
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Among other things, anyway.
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If you allow people to trade social importance and socially-defined obligations, then markets are probably really old. Money-and-contract markets are probably also old but limited in scope. Maybe cash money and markets need each other.
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Exchange is as old as any record. local barter about the same. trade (production on speculation) prehistoric. markets (production on speculation using imputed prices) as early as civilization (cities).
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So in the sense you mean math (positional naming for scale independent measurement), or the grammar facility (continuous recursive disambiguation), exchange is a facility like grammar. But yes, markets are an institutional byproduct of continuous suppression of criminality.
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