Debt : the first 5,000 years / David Graeber.

By:

Graeber, David

Material type: Text

9781612194196 (softcover)

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DDC classification:

332 GRA

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	332 GRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100606061

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A revised and updated edition of the international bestseller. Graeber, one of the early organisers of Occupy Wall Street and a well regarded academic, presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom; he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods, long before the invention of cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we first see a society divided between debtors and creditors.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-500) and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

David Rolfe Graeber was born February 12, 1961 in New York. He was an anthropologist, anarchist, author, and a professor at the London School of Economics. He was an outspoken critic of economic and social inequality. He coined the phrase "We are the 99 Percent,' the slogan of the Occupy Wall Street movement."

He earned his BA in anthropology from State University of New York at Purchase in 1984. He earned his masters and doctorate from the University of Chicago. He did ethnographic research in central Madagascar which he used for his PhD thesis (1997).

He was a prolific author. His books included Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011), The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement (2013), The Utopia of Rules (2015), Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (2018), and in fall 2021, Farrar, Straus & Giroux will publish The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, written with David Wengrow.

David Graeber died on September 2, 2020 at the age of 59.

(Bowker Author Biography)