【BBC经济学】贪婪之梦9
Hints:Ancient Mesopotamia
Baghdad
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http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201308/201308240833506974515.mp3And, whether money takes the form of silver coins, seashells, bars of gold or bank notes, that's been true from ancient times right down to the present day.
Even lumps of clay can work better than silver coins, if people have enough confidence in them.
In Ancient Mesopotamia, nearly 4,000 years ago, people used clay tablets like these ones to commit themselves to particular financial transactions.
For example, this one, found a little southwest of Baghdad, specifies that a debtor will repay a lender 330 measures of grain on the harvest day.
But this one's even more fascinating, because what it says is that a debt of four measures of barley should be repaid to the bearer of the clay tablet.
And it's that idea of repayment to the bearer that really fascinates me.无论货币以什么形式出现银币
贝壳金条或是银行票据
此原则
自古至今都是成立的
如果人们对它的信心足够
黏土都比银币值钱
约四千年前在古老的美索不达米亚平原
人们用这种粘土块
作为金融交易的凭证
例如这一个
在巴格达西南部发掘出来的
规定债务人
在收获粮食的时候
须归还债权人330斗谷物
这个更有趣
它上面写着
须偿还该粘土块持有人
4斗大麦
这种向持票人偿还的概念
让我非常感兴趣
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