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Debt

The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded

ISBN-13: 9781612194196

Author(s): David Graeber

Subjects: KC

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: Melville House Publishing

Publication Date: 06-11-2014

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£18.99
Debt

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 divided between debtors and creditors.