An interesting interview (the second half of the programme) where David Graeber describes his anthropological study of 5,000
years of Debt which shows that dispensing credit precedes even the
invention of money.
Hear the interview at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0196rp1
See the book:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GYhajCQU8XIC
Water Flowing Upwards: Net financial flows from developing countries
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from C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh Once again, low and middle income
countries (LMICs) are at the brutal receiving end of the fickle trajectory
of i...