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Sunday, February 26, 2012
A banker looks at Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years from the vantage of commercial debt
Read it at Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2012/02/25/too-big-to-fail-the-first-5000-years/
Too Big To Fail: The First 5000 Years
by Daniel Davies
(h/t Mark Thoma)
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