Debt: The First 5,000 YearsAuthor: David Graeber Condition: Very good Hardcover 542 pages This financial history book presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. It shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goodsthat is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first