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
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The confident falsehoods of economists and the Nobel Prize
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from Lars Syll Faced with economic theory’s apparent inability to address
real economic and financial problems, economists retreat into the wonderful
world...