Schulden. Die ersten 5000 Jahre by Ursel Schäfer, Hans Freundl, Stephan Gebauer, David Graeber

Schulden. Die ersten 5000 Jahre

Ursel Schäfer, Hans Freundl, Stephan Gebauer, David Graeber

536 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced

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Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this ve...

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