Debt : The First 5000 Years
London : First Melville House : 2011Description: 18cm : 542 PagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 42179ISBN: 9781612194196Subject(s): Finance | Stock Market | DebtDDC classification: 330 GRAItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | MAIN LIBRARY Book | 330 GRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 111988 |
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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.
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