Cash is pretty convenient.
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Paying for the stuff you want with currency is way easier than relying on chairs you made or chickens you raised.
Children can use preferences for leverage.
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When deciding whether others should make trades, children may consider who likes what.
The ‘war on cash’ is slowly eliminating paper currency.
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A cashless society depends on three things, all of which have failed in recent weeks as a result of natural disasters and security breaches.
The advantages of coins as currency were clear.
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Currency first hit the scene thousands of years ago. An anthropologist explains the early origins and uses of money – and how archaeological finds fill in our picture of the past.