Talk:Silent trade

Merger proposal
I propose that Silent barter be merged into Silent trade. I think that the content in the Silent barter article can easily be explained in the context of Silent trade, and the Silent trade article is of a reasonable size in which the merging of Silent barter will not cause any problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. Silent trade is slightly clearer, but Silent barter contains a few details that are not touched on here. Andrewaskew (talk) 23:45, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 11:34, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

The silent trade is a myth
I don't feel like entirely rewriting this page at the moment, but in case someone else does, Pablo de Moraes Farias demonstrated back in 1974 that the silent trade is a historical myth:. According to Farias, most accounts of "silent trade" are either repetitions of vague accounts going back to ancient times, or descriptions of trade conducted through a broker misinterpreted through the lens of "silent trade". More recent work generally seems to agree with Farias:. Let's try to make Wikipedia be more accurate than Herodotus here. Ornithopsis (talk) 15:50, 28 April 2022 (UTC)


 * It's described very clearly (not in a "vague" way) in Herodotus. AnonMoos (talk) 10:19, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * It's vague in geographic details and vague in Herodotus's sources for his information. But that's not the point: the point is that Farias has argued that silent trade is a myth, and this view seems to have been widely accepted. This article needs to be significantly reworked to take into account the widespread academic skepticism of the idea of silent trade. Ornithopsis (talk) 05:12, 2 May 2022 (UTC)