Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

534 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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