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The First 5,000 Years

By: David Graeber

Business & Economics

every economics textbook says the same thing: money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. the problem with this version of history? there’s not a shred of evidence to support it.here anthropologist david graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. he shows that for more than 5,000 years,...