Stacy Moore's Reviews > Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams

This is an academic and rigorous text. This review is not. The book is also not for the armchair teabagger who's only knowledge of Marx or Mauss is Groucho and Mickey. Graeber, who is well-known for his work on debt, takes on the theory and meaning of value from an anthropological perspective. Value is by no means universal. Modern capitalism, as we experience it today, takes some of the social values from our smaller tribal experiences and enhances them. You'll never look the same way at exchange again.