Debt: The First 5

Buyer guide Debt: The First 5,000 Years. 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 version of history? There’s not a shred of evidence to support it Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning Debt: The First 5 reversal of conventional wisdom ... Learn more »

Debt: The First 5 Review: Debt: The First 5,000 Years. This is a very interesting and important book. Graeber's writing style is engaging and provocative, enjoyable and fascinating.Graeber has been accused as being overly political in his interpretation of history and anthropology. There is a warrant of truth to this accusation, but Graeber is dealing with highly political, and deeply moral, dilemmas which dominant history and have implications for contemporary circumstances, an apolitical book would be impossible (many philosophers of science (right and left), including myself, reject Hume's Law or the radical distinction between facts and values, really ... Read more »

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