Debt: The First 5,000 Years [BEST]

One of the book's most provocative insights is that the language of morality, law, and religion is deeply rooted in ancient debates about debt.

: A return to credit money as major empires collapsed. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

Graeber challenges the "myth of barter"—the idea taught in most economics textbooks that money was invented to solve the inconveniences of bartering goods. One of the book's most provocative insights is