Debt: The First 5,000 Years
- Section
- Deane’s Library
- Type
- Book Review
- Pages
- 534
- Author
- David Graeber
- Published
- 2011
- Date
- Tags
- money, history, finance, economics
“I didn’t get into this. I thought it was an examination of the financial type of debt, but it literally starts way back at the dawn of civilization with the idea of moral debt – ‘I owe you my life,’ and such. Then it progresses laboriously forward through a long period of human debt – slavery and…”