Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics
1:21:10·2012·introductory level·Public Colloquium
Uses archaeological and anthropological evidence to overturn the textbook myth of barter, showing that credit systems predated coinage by millennia across Mesopotamia and Eurasia.
DEBT: The First 5,000 Years
While the "national debt" has been the concern du jour of many economists, commentators and politicians, little attention is ever paid to the historical significance of debt.
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