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Debt

Debt

The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/12/2010
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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.
ISBN:
9781933633862
9781933633862
Category:
Economic history
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-12-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Melville House Publishing
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
235.71x158.75x45.47mm
Weight:
0.77kg
David Graeber

David Graeber is a Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. His many books include The Utopia of Rules, The Democracy Project and the bestselling Debt: The First 5,000 Years. A frequent guest on the BBC, he writes for, among others, the Guardian, Strike!, the Baffler and New Left Review. He lives in London.

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