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Debt

Paperback • 2021 • English • 1. edition

Debt: the first 5,000 years

By David Graeber

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About the book

A revised and updated edition of the international bestseller. Graeber, one of the early organisers of Occupy Wall Street and a well regarded academic, presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom; he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods, long before the invention of cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we first see a society ...Show more

Economic history

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ISBN

9781612194196

Publisher

Melville House

Published year

2021

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Debt

Format

Paperback

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