A Brief Economic History of Time

What is an economy? You might say it is how people who cannot predict the future deal with it. People save money to protect themselves from calamity. Banks charge interest to account for risk. People trade stocks to bet on the earnings trajectory of a company. The first taxes were levied to support standing armies that could fight in the event of an invasion.
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