"YOU CAN BUY ALMOST ANYTHING WITH POTATOES": AN EXAMINATION OF BARTER DURING ECONOMIC CRISIS IN BULGARIA.

From: Ethnology | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: Cellarius, Barbara A. | Copyright information

This article investigates bartering practices in rural Bulgaria during 1997, an exceptionally bad year in the nation's economy. First, it describes the types of barter transactions observed in terms of participant identities, the goods and services exchanged, their sources, and the circumstances of the transactions. Second, it considers the extent to which these exchanges were the result of near hyperinflation and economic chaos early in 1997. Alternative explanations view barter a...

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