![]() He shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Renaissance Italy to Imperial China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. ![]() So says anthropologist David Graeber in a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. It is in this era that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors-which lives on in full force to this day. ![]() 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. The groundbreaking international best-seller that turns everything you think about money, debt, and society on its head-from the “brilliant, deeply original political thinker” David Graeber (Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me)īefore there was money, there was debt. ![]()
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