One of the first lessons I learnt in Econ101 was that barter trade is inefficient compared with a money economy. Yet, in an interesting article in the FT's House & Home section (“Fair Trade”, May 16 2009) I read about the rising popularity of websites through which people can swap houses, instead of buying and selling them. Is this another example of how useful my economics degree is?
Confused Economist
我在初級經濟學的頭幾堂課中就學到：易貨交易比貨幣經濟效率低。但我在英國《金融時報》住房與家居版(House & Home)看到了一篇有趣的文章（2009年5月16日發表的《公平交易》(Fair Trade)）。該文寫到，有一類網站正愈發受到大眾的歡迎：人們可通過這種網站來交換房子，而非買賣。這是否再次說明，我的經濟學學位沒多大用？
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