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Debt

The First 5,000 Years

Debt( )
Author: Graeber, David
Narrated by: Gardner, Grover
ISBN:978-1-59659-937-6
Publication Date:Jan 2012
Publisher:Ascent Audio
Imprint:Gildan Audio
Book Format:Downloadable audio file
List Price:USD $39.98
Book Description:

Before there was money, there was debtEvery 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,...
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Author Biography
Graeber, David (Author)
David Rolfe Graeber was born February 12, 1961 in New York. He was an anthropologist, anarchist, author, and a professor at the London School of Economics. He was an outspoken critic of economic and social inequality. He coined the phrase "We are the 99 Percent,' the slogan of the Occupy Wall Street movement."

He earned his BA in anthropology from State University of New York at Purchase in 1984. He earned his masters and doctorate from the University of Chicago. He did ethnographic research in central Madagascar which he used for his PhD thesis (1997).

He was a prolific author. His books included Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011), The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement (2013), The Utopia of Rules (2015), Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (2018), and in fall 2021, Farrar, Straus & Giroux will publish The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, written with David Wengrow.

David Graeber died on September 2, 2020 at the age of 59.

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