Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Updated and Expanded) by David Graeber

Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Updated and Expanded)

David Graeber

542 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced
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THE BLOCKBUSTER INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOREvery economics textbook tells the same story: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul thei...

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