The classic work on debt, now is a special Tenth Anniversary edition with a new introduction by Thomas Picketty Before there was money, there was debt.
Here anthropologist David Gra.
The problem with this version of history? There\'s not a shred of evidence to support it.
Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems--to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market.
The classic work on debt, now is a special Tenth Anniversary edition with a new introduction by Thomas Picketty Before there was money, there was debt