Gabriella’s Reviews > The Banks We Deserve: Reclaiming Community Banking for a Just Economy > Status Update

“…communities have been making loans to meet their own local credit needs in some way for as long as written records exist…long before anyone started talking about “free markets” or “entrepreneurship.” The earliest human writings discovered so far are five thousand years old from ancient Mesopotamia, and they weren’t poems or letters. They were loan contracts and accounting ledgers.”