What is debt? An interview with economic anthropologist David Graeber
source: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/what-is-debt-
The real question is not how does barter generate some sort of medium of exchange, that then becomes money, but rather, how does that broad sense of "I owe you one" turn into a precise system of measurement – that is: money as a unit of account?
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Dagum
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"economic anthropologist" haven't heard of that hybrid field of study before.
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Dagum
