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.
Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics
Self-contained public lectures, keynote addresses, and research seminars.
Uses archaeological and anthropological evidence to overturn the textbook myth of barter, showing that credit systems predated coinage by millennia across Mesopotamia and Eurasia.