Debt the first 5,000 years
"Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems--to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of...
| Main Author: | Graeber, David. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Brooklyn :
Melville House,
[2014]
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| Edition: | Updated and expanded edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- On the experience of moral confusion
- The myth of barter
- Primordial debts
- Cruelty and redemption
- A brief treatise on the moral grounds of economic relations
- Games with sex and death
- Honor and degradation, or, on the foundations of contemporary civilization
- Credit versus bullion and the cycles of history
- The axial age (800 BC
- 600 AD)
- The Middle Ages (600AD
- 145o AD)
- Age of the great capitalist empires (1450-1971)
- The beginning of something yet to be determined (1971
- Present).