Citation Needed - 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices

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Query: 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices

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It thus is not surprising that whereas the capital:birth metaphor for interest was not coined until about half a millennium after interest was implied in Sumer, it turned up in Greece and Italy full-blown from the first time we find interest implied, in the eighth century BC.

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