Debt: The First 5,000 Years -

: Words like "guilt," "sin," and "redemption" were originally used to describe financial obligations and their resolution.

Graeber challenges the "myth of barter"—the idea taught in most economics textbooks that money was invented to solve the inconveniences of bartering goods. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

: A return to credit money as major empires collapsed. : Words like "guilt," "sin," and "redemption" were

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: Coinage and slavery rose alongside large standing armies.