Kenya: Global Rise of the Attention Economy

4 January 2013
opinion

For much of human history, there was no economy based on trade and fungible goods. People operated in small groups and fended for themselves.

Scarcity was self-limiting: If you could not grow or catch your own food, you died (or moved). Specialisation, trade, and pricing - not to mention religions and (economically) unproductive religious institutions, mass production, mass media, and big government - are all recent developments.

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