@0x_Heart I believe debt by graeber is what you are looking for. It sort of picks on Adam Smith's notion of we went from bartering to switching to money because it was more convenient, and removes the role of invisible hand and puts governments at the centre, in the emergence of money.
People burying YFI, you do realize Andre hasn’t worked on it for over a year? And even if he did, there are 50 full-time people and 140 part-time contributors to back things up.