Austrian economics are so painful. Its amazing to me how impervious to contrary evidence its adherents are... their blind faith in their core beliefs are so unshakable. Every time I read one of them say that money arose from markets I wonder why they don't sponsor a bill that sets up an agency like NOAA that watches for dangerous conditions in this primeval force called "the market" so that people can be warned when "the market" is angry and another virgin needs to be tossed into its going maw in an act of propitiation.

Just the idea that markets pre-date states is so ingrained.