Co-ordination in Economics

The failure of understanding

Let us ask this query: What do people need? Then the answer is not: “an economy.” It is they need to coordinate, or get along together.

An economy is -usually -a system of trade that operates according to strict rules. [yes, there is a ‘Reply’ capacity here: Go ahead, then…]

For the first 40,000 of the last 50,000 years of homo sapiens there was no economy as a distinct, identifiable idea or system. Then, in places like Sumer, appears writing (cuneiform) as trade records and records of…