From informal polling, it might also top the chart of books that are begun but never finished and for good reason. It will be difficult for Graeber or anyone else to top this book for the attention it received due to excellent timing. turned assistant editor of the Financial Times, told me that central bankers were perusing it. When has the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business Magazine (Morris 2011) ever placed an anthropology book on its “best business reads” of the year? Gillian Tett, an anthropology Ph.D. Capitalists apparently cannot get enough of it. It may be the most read public anthropology book of the 21st century, written by a self-proclaimed anarchist and possible “house theorist” of the Occupy Movement (Meaney 2011). David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years is an unusual book, emerging in 2011 in the midst of the Great Recession and European debt crisis and going on to become an international best seller.
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