A closer look
If you want to get completely blacklisted by orthodox economists, just tell the truth about where money comes from. Alexander del Mar was the first director of the US Bureau of Statistics, but his real passion was destroying the myth that money evolved naturally from barter. He exhaustively documented how currency has always been an explicitly political tool, designed and violently enforced by states to control their populations and steal resources. His heterodox views threatened the entire banking establishment, so the academic elite quietly swept his massive historical volumes under the rug and pretended he never existed.
