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In order to explain the emergence of barter nothing more than the assumption of a narrowly defined self-interest is required. If and insofar as man prefers more choices and goods to fewer, he will choose barter and division of labor over self-sufficiency.
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Hoppe, HH. (1990). Banking, Nation States, and International Politics: A Sociological Reconstruction of the Present Economic Order. In: Rothbard, M.N., Block, W. (eds) The Review of Austrian Economics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3454-7_3
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