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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Are the new national accounts guidelines any good? 5. The (not so) informal
economy
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Summary: the formal-informal dichotomy is not fit to distinguish economic
activities in a coherent way and has to be replaced by a scheme that shows
out ho...