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Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

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Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America

by Peter Washington

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Leo and 2 other people liked Leo's status update Leo is on page 71 of 544 of Debt: "In fact, our standard account of monetary history is precisely backwards. We did not begin with barter, discover money, and then eventually develop credit systems. It happened precisely the other way around. What we now call virtual money came first. Coins came much later... Barter ... has mainly been what people ... do when ... they have no access to currency."
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Leo made a comment on his status in Debt: The First 5,000 Years "Wow. I didn't know that. Graeber backs it up too. Apparently we've known this about the Mesopotamians since 1913, and there was never any evidence for...more"
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Leo made a comment on Katie King's review of Sixth Column "Katie wrote: "The best thing one might say for this book would be to work oneself up for dealing with bravery with being occupied. This is not nothing...more"
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Leo liked Simon's review of Day After Tomorrow: " I'm about a third of the way through this book and I just want to comment about the racism and bigotry presented so far. Yes, the characters are racist (both the Americans and Pan-Asians) but I think it is important to take this in context... " Read more of this review »
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