Debt: the First 5,000 Years
Valuentum’s subscriber base enjoys reading the latest and greatest investing books. As a result, Valuentum requests and receives business and investing books before they are officially released. Our editorial staff took a look at the following book, and here’s what we thought after reading it: Debt: the First 5,000 Years By David Graeber. Melville House Publishing, 2011. 544 p. ISBN 978-1-933633-86-2.Book Release Date: July 12, 2011 Graeber (Reader in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London) takes a multi-pronged approach to exploring debt, looking at both the moral and economic underpinnings of debt as well as providing anthropological evidence of the long history of debt and credit. He refutes the generally accepted history of money, which posits that barter systems led … Read more