Debt: The First Five Thousand Years
Blog: June 23rd, 2010Debt: The First Five Thousand Years by David Graeber Throughout its 5000 year history, debt has always involved institutions – whether Mesopotamian sacred kingship, Mosaic jubilees, Sharia or Canon Law – that place controls on debt’s potentially catastrophic social consequences. It is only in the current era, writes anthropologist David Graeber, that we have begun [...]
