About the book: 2015 / A large-scale and revolutionary study of the history of commodity-money relations from ancient times to the present day, undertaken by an American anthropologist, professor at the London School of Economics and one of the “anti-leaders” of the Occupy Wallstreet movement, who came up with the slogan “We are the 99%.” Graeber, relying on anthropological methods, puts forward the thesis that at the heart of what we traditionally call the economy is debt, which at different stages of social development can take the form of money, barter, collateral, loans, shares, and so on. One of the imperatives of the book is to wrest economics from the hands of “professional economists”, who proved their incompetence during the last global crisis, and place it in the broader context of cultural history, political science, sociology and other humanities disciplines. For a wide range of readers.