Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years

Cover Art for B00Q1HZMCW, Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
ASIN: B00Q1HZMCW
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 9 December, 2014
Format: Kindle eBook
Language: English
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Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. --

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