Debt: The First 5,000 Years
The First 5,000 Years
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About Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Economic history states that money replaced a bartering system, yet there isn't any evidence to support this axiom. Anthropologist Graeber presents a stunning reversal of this conventional wisdom. For more than 5000 years, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods. Since the beginning of the agrarian empires, humans have been divided into debtors and creditors. Through time, virtual credit money was replaced by gold and the system as a whole went into decline. This fascinating history is told for the first time.
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- Adult/general
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- Standalone or self-contained
- Estimated reading time
- 13.5 hours at about 40 pages per hour
- Length
- Long read
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber, published in 2012, is a 534-page book for readers who prefer to browse by the experience of a story, not only by its sales category. Its strongest discovery signals include Books Like The Anarchist Cookbook, Nonfiction.
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- Print ISBN
- 978-1-612-19129-4
- Published
- 2012
- Pages
- 534
