Forgive us our debts
Benjamin Kunkel: The History of Debt, 10 May 2012
Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order
by Philip Coggan.
Allen Lane, 294 pp., £20, December 2011,978 1 84614 510 0 Show More
by Philip Coggan.
Allen Lane, 294 pp., £20, December 2011,
Debt: The First 5000 Years
by David Graeber.
Melville House, 534 pp., £21.99, July 2011,978 1 933633 86 2 Show More
by David Graeber.
Melville House, 534 pp., £21.99, July 2011,
“... digest of changes in Western monetary policy over the last few centuries by the Economist writer Philip Coggan, and in Debt: The First 5000 Years by the anthropologist and activist David Graeber, which situates the same stretch of modern history within the vast tidal shifts, across five millennia of Eurasian history, between monetary regimes founded on ... ”
