An Analysis of David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years (The Macat Library)

Debt is one of the great subjects of our day, and understanding the way that it not only fuels economic growth, but can also be used as a means of generating profit and exerting control, is central to grasping the way in which our society really works.

David Graeber' s contribution to this debate is to apply his anthropologists' training to the understanding of a phenomenon often considered purely from an economic point of view.