Graeber, David,

Debt : the first 5,000 years / David Graeber. - Revised and updated edition. - 566 pages ; 21 cm

Previous edition: 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Anthropologist David Graeber shows readers that for more than 5000 years, since the beginning of agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods. He also shows that the history of society being divided into creditors and debtors was born in this ancient era.

9781612194196 (pbk.) : £15.99


Debt--History.
Money--History.
Financial crises--History.
Finance and Accounting.
Finance and Accounting.

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