Debt
The First 5,000 Years
Written by David Graeber
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Price: $22.00
Winner of the Bateson Book Prize awarded by the Society for Cultural Anthropology
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 credit...
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