Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Debt, Tenth Anniversary Edition: The First 5,000 YearsISBN13:9781612199337ISBN10:161219933XAuthor:Graeber, David (Author)Description: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 Reversal Of Conventional Wisdom He Shows That For More Than 5,000 Years, Since The Beginnings Of The First Agrarian Empires, Humans Have Used Elaborate Credit Systems To Buy And Sell Goods--That Is, Long Before The Invention Of Coins Or Cash It Is In This Era, Graeber Argues, That We Also First Encounter A Society Divided Into Debtors And Creditors Graeber Shows That Arguments About Debt And Debt Forgiveness Have Been At The Center Of Political Debates From Italy To China, As Well As Sparking Innumerable Insurrections He Also Brilliantly Demonstrates That The Language Of The Ancient Works Of Law And Religion (Words Like Guilt, Sin, And Redemption) Derive In Large Part From Ancient Debates About Debt, And Shape Even Our Most Basic Ideas Of Right And Wrong We Are Still Fighting These Battles Today Without Knowing It Debt: The First 5,000 Years Is A Fascinating Chronicle Of This Little Known History--As Well As How It Has Defined Human History, And What It Means For The Credit Crisis Of The Present Day And The Future Of Our Economy Binding:Hardcover, HardcoverPublisher:Melville House PublishingPublication Date:2021-05-11Weight:0 lbsDimensions:Number of Pages:576Language:English
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Book Title: Debt : the FIRST 5000 Years,Updated and Expanded
Item Length: 9.3in
Item Height: 1.7in
Item Width: 6.5in
Author: David Graeber
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Economic History, Finance / General, Social History, Economics / Theory
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Publication Year: 2021
Genre: Business & Economics, History
Item Weight: 28 Oz
Number of Pages: 560 Pages
