Comments on: Price Determination in a Barter Economy http://www.themoneyenigma.com/price-determination-in-a-barter-economy/ A New Perspective on Money and Inflation Sun, 03 Apr 2016 00:13:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: Daniel Goldman http://www.themoneyenigma.com/price-determination-in-a-barter-economy/#comment-202 Sat, 25 Apr 2015 16:20:53 +0000 http://www.themoneyenigma.com/?p=132#comment-202 It seems that the question actually becomes even more complicated than this discussion lets on, and is probably one reason why economists do not want to even begin to consider this idea of “coupling”. In a market with only two goods or services being exchanged, the coupling is simple. If we add oranges to the market, and people are willing to exchange oranges and apples as well as apples and bananas then we have to take into account all three supply and demand sets. Then in the case of a common medium of exchange, every resource becomes coupled. This does of course logically appear to be the case, but it seems to make analysis of prices exponentially more difficult.

Of course, it’s also possible that I completely misunderstood the analysis presented here.

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