Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Uses archaeological and anthropological evidence to overturn the textbook myth of barter, showing that credit systems predated coinage by millennia across Mesopotamia and Eurasia.
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Uses archaeological and anthropological evidence to overturn the textbook myth of barter, showing that credit systems predated coinage by millennia across Mesopotamia and Eurasia.
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