Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and ExpandedThe groundbreaking international best seller that turns everything you think about money, debt, and society on its head from the "brilliant, deeply original political thinker" David Graeber (Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me) Before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods that is, long before the