Debt: The First 5,000 Years

Graeber, David

ISBN 10: 1612191819 / ISBN 13: 9781612191812

Published by Melville House Publishing, 2012

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Synopsis:

Every economics textbook says the same money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems&ndash,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.

About the Author: David Graeber teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value, Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire, and Direct Action: An Ethnography. He has written for Harper’s, The Nation, Mute, and The New Left Review. In 2006, he delivered the Malinowski Memorial Lecture at the London School of Economics, an annual talk that honors “outstanding anthropologists who have fundamentally shaped the study of culture.”

In the summer of 2011, he worked with a small group of activists and Adbusters magazine to plan Occupy Wall Street. Bloomberg Businessweek has called him an "anti-leader" of the movement. The Atlantic wrote that he "has come to represent the Occupy Wall Street message... expressing the group's theory, and its founding principles, in a way that truly elucidated some of the things people have questioned about it."

Bibliographic Details

Title: Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good