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'represent' something else
((yet rice can either be food or money in SEA & gold can be an ornament or money))
and, Alice notes, money can be a commodity in W. econ.

in our society lots of goods & services can't legally be bought e.g. votes, acad. degrees, sex

in small societies, many of these powers of social abstraction present to considerable degree

in peasant vil debts are:
time -- long-term
place -- restricted
person -- small
goods/services -- wide variety


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Feb 22 - memory of I owe you a debt wh [[which]] can later come back & collect on may be exclusively human
at the pt. that exchange starts to be socially  disembedded need writing in order to record debts; as long as embedded w/in small group not needed

money also allows you to make change when exchanging 2 things which are not exactly equivalent

back to Codere:
1. money stuff - is it or is it not valuable in & of itself
2. numerical units - is there plenty of change around, can you make change easily
3. does the society have wts & measures? (govn. may get involved in validating, controlling, backing all this)
4. writing system - valuable for recording debts so you don't have to carry money around
5. interchangeability of money against other things