The First 5,000 Years
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Before there was money, there was debt 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 problem with this version of history There?s not a shred of evidence to support it.Here anthropologist David Graeber prese...
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Economics, Finance, and History.
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Consider The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis. Recommended by 15 sources.
“Michael Lewis chronicles the friendship and intellectual partnership of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, who championed the idea that cognitive biases shape our choices. The narrative reads like a buddy story, weaving their discoveries into personal anecdotes and the drama of their collaboration. You'll grasp key ideas—loss aversion, framing—through their story, but the book focuses on biography, not application. Helpful for understanding behavioral economics' origins; less useful if you want actionable advice. The emotional arc of their relationship can overshadow the science.”
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