SOURCE: BBC
9/3/2020
tags: economic history, debt, money, anthropology, financial history, tributes
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9/3/2020
In Memory of David Graeber, Listen to A BBC Interview on the History of Debt
Historians in the Newstags: economic history, debt, money, anthropology, financial history, tributes
Anthropologist David Graeber, whose works included the influential book Debt: The First 5,000 Years has recently passed away.
This 1996 BBC interview explores the terrain of that book and the significance of debt as a political force.
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