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

by David Graeber

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1612194192

ISBN13:9781612194196

Release Date:October 2014

Publisher:Melville House Publishing

Length:560 Pages

Weight:1.21 lbs.

Dimensions:1.6" x 5.6" x 8.1"

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