History 1: Money and the stone coin at the bottom of the sea

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Jul 11, 202434:05Education

Planet Money Summer School is back for eight weeks. Join as we travel back in time to find the origins of our economic way of life. Today we ask surprisingly hard question: What is money? And where did it come from? We t...

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