David Graeber – Debt: The First 5000 Years – Similar Books & Further Reading

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• The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times. — Arrighi, Giovanni.
• Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism. — Anderson, Perry
• Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth. — Atwood, Margaret.
• Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature — Auerbach, Erich.
• Icon: studies in the history of an idea. — Barasch, Moshe.
• The Trial of the Templars. — Barber, Malcolm.
• The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century. — Barendse, Rene J.
• The Soul of Modern Economic Man: Ideas of Self-Interest, Thomas Hobbes to Adam Smith. — Myers, Milton L.
• Money and Magic: A Critique of the Modern Economy in the Light of Goethe’s Faust. — Binswanger, Hans Christoph.
• The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800. — Blackburn, Robin.
• Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Century: The wheels of commerce. — Braudel, Fernand.
• Social Conflicts in the Roman Republic. — Brunt, P. A.
• A History of Money. — Davies, Glynn.
• Money and Exchange: Folktales and Reality. — Fayazmanesh, Sasan.
• The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700–2000. — Ferguson, Niall.
• Colossus: the price of America’s empire. — Ferguson, Niall.
• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. — Ferguson, Niall.
• The Lexus and the Olive Tree. — Friedman, Thomas L.
• Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine. — Garnsey, Peter.
• Thinking about Property: From Antiquity to the Age of Revolution. — Garnsey, Peter.
• Wealth and Poverty. — Gilder, George.
• Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion and Desire. — Graeber, David.
• Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams. — Graeber, David.
• The Origins of Money. — Grierson, Phillip.
• The Anthropology of Economy. — Gudeman, Stephen.
• Absolute Delusion, Perfect Buddhahood: The Rise and Fall of a Chinese Heresy. — Hubbard, Jamie.
• Conquerors and Slaves: Sociological Studies in Roman History. — Hopkins, Keith.
• Super Imperialism: The Origins and Fundamentals of U.S World Dominance. — Hudson, Michael.
• A Psychological Perspective on Economics — Kahneman, Daniel.
• A Treatise on Money. — Keynes, John Maynard.
• The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline. — Kosambi, Damodar Dharmanand.
• The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character. — Kramer, Samuel Noah.
• The Financialization of Everyday Life. — Martin, Randy.
• Capital — Marx, Karl.
• The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England. — Muldrew, Craig.
• Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence. — Parks, Time.
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. — Perkins, John.
• The Veil of Money. — Pigou, Arthur Cecil.
• The Great Transformation. — Polanyi, Karl.
• The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. — Pomeranz, Kenneth.
• To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China. — Puett, Michael J.
• The Secret Kingdom. — Robertson, Pat.
• The Western Illusion of Human Nature. — Sahlins, Marshall.
• Stone Age Economics. — Sahlins, Marshall.
• Economics. — Samuelson, Paul A.
• The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece. — Schaps, David.
• Reciprocity and Ritual. Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State. — Seaford, Richard.
• Money, Language, and Thought. — Shell, Marc.
• Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man. — Taussig, Michael.
• The Ghost Festival in Medieval China. — Teiser, Stephen F.
• The End of the World as We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century. — Wallerstein, Immanuel.
• Debt for Sale: A Social History of the Credit Trap. — Williams, Brett.
• Inventing God’s Law: How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi. — Wright, David P.