Why We Use Money: The Fisherman Who Needed a Knife

Duration: 10 min.

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1970

Creator: LCA

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 18Nov70 · LP38473 (Jul-Dec 1970) Copyright holder: Learning Co. of America, a division of Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc

Description: A story about a fisherman who initiated a complicated chain of trading in order to get a new knife is used to show that money is the most convenient means of exchanging people's work for the things they need or want. Animated., Discusses the trading a fisherman must go through in order to get a new knife. Explains how, due to the inconvenience of trading, the idea of money is born.

Complete Record: , Story about a fisherman who initiated a complicated chain of trading in order to get a new knife. Plot is used to show that money is the most convenient way of exchanging goods for people's work., Discusses the trading a fisherman must go through in order to get a new knife. Explains how, due to the inconvenience of trading, the idea of money is born.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.