Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

427 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced

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Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate ...

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