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  • ENGLISH

    Language
  • 534

    Pages
  • 9780670086528

    ISBN
  • 155 mm

    Width
  • 233 mm

    Height
  • 870 gram

    Weight
  • HARDCOVER

    Binding
  • 2011

    Publish Date
  • 42 mm

    Spine Width

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    Apparently not, according to Yale-bred anthropologist David Graeber. In a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom, Graeber radically challenges our understanding of debt. He illustrates how, for more than 5000 years long before the invention of coins or bills there existed debtors and creditors who used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods. He argues that Madagascar was held to be indebted to France because France invaded it, reminds us that texts from Vedic India included God in credit systems and shows how the dollar changed European society forever in the sixteenth century. He also brilliantly demonstrates how words like...  Read More

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    David Graeber

    David Rolfe Graeber was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs,