Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded (Paperback)

from HadriantheBlind

Excellent book. A long-term, anthropological study of the history and the phenomenon of debt itself, and future implications. There's a lot going on here, and I'm too muddle to organize my thoughts...

from xiaomarlo

This is the densest book I've read in a long while. I'm a notoriously slow reader of non-fiction books of this sort, but I pushed my way through it, and there's lots of good things to glean from th...

from jonerthon

This author passed away over the summer, sadly, but I actually read this before that event. He was a well-known leftist academic and I wanted his take on the topic. The book isn't as hugely ambitio...

from jcbrunner

I very much enjoyed reading this book. The author takes one along on a fascinating journey into the history of debt. One of the key findings of the book is that anthropology shows that the barter n...

from rivkat

I got this book because of reviews which emphasize that Graeber starts with a fundamental challenge to the idea that you have to pay your debts. Why? How were those debts acquired and why are they ...