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Debt - Updated and Expanded

The First 5,000 Years

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Now in audio, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber's "fresh...fascinating...thought-provoking...and exceedingly timely" (Financial Times) history of debt.

Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods - that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.

Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like "guilt", "sin", and "redemption") derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it.

©2014 David Graeber (P)2015 Gildan Media LLC Anthropologie Welt Ökonomie

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"Controversial and thought-provoking, an excellent book." (Booklist)
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This book is great because it gives you what you need to start understanding economy, money and what we actually need money/debt for in a society.

Makes so much sense

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the books presents some very new insights about money and debt, that i was absolutely unaware of. Definately a must read/hear for anyone interested in the history of money and economy.

very interesting and unique

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Different mind changing perspective on debt. Much appreciated book that will give you a new view on how debt originated and links to war, slavery, freedom and love and this connects to modern live.

Unexpectedly great

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A great book and easy to follow along. It was astonishing to me to learn how earlier societies organised themselves. I now better understand why some older relatives of mine living in rural Germany painstakingly keep track of any favours given and owed!

How debt is underlying our whole economic system.

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After the introduction I was afraid that the whole book will have a political overtone, but I was pleased to find that not to be the case (except for the last chapter and introduction).

David Graeber provides the great historical arc of debt and money all the way back to Mesopotamia 3000 BCE. It is shown how these concepts are deeply intertwined with cultural, religious and moral beliefs, as well as war.

Great book for anyone, there is no particular background knowledge required.

Great historical perspective

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