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Key Features Author is the leader of the Occupy Wall Street movement Winner of the 2012 Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing and of the Bateson Book Prize awarded by the Society for Cultural Anthropology About the Book: Debt: The First 5,000 Years A fascinating chronicle of little known history ofDebt Must we always repay our debts? Wasnt money invented to replace ancient bartersystems? Apparently not, according to Yale-bred anthropologist DavidGraeber. In a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom, Graeberradically challenges our understanding of debt. He illustrates how,for more than 5000 years long before the invention of coins orbills there existed debtors and creditors who used elaborate creditsystems to buy and sell goods. He argues that Madagascar was heldto be indebted to France because France invaded it, reminds us thattexts from Vedic India included God in credit systems and shows howthe dollar changed European society forever in the sixteenthcentury. He also brilliantly demonstrates how words like guilt, sinand redemption derive in large part from ancient debates aboutdebt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a fascinating chronicle ofthis little known history of how it has defined the evolution ofhuman society, and what it means for the credit crisis of thepresent day and the future of our economy. About the Author: David Graeber David Graeber teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths,University of London. He is the author of several books onanthropology and anarchy including Fragments of an AnarchistAnthropology and Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, andDesire. He has written for Harpers, The Wall Street Journal, TheWashington Post, and The New Left Review. In the summer of 2011, heworked with a small group of activists to plan Occupy Wall Street.Bloomberg Businessweek has called him an anti- leader of themovement. It was also Graeber, a lifelong hater of corporate smokeand mirrors, wh
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