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008			160425t20142012nyua b 001 0 eng
010			_a2013-497354
020			_a9781612194196 _q(paperback)
020			_a1612194192 _q(paperback) :
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn894149432
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082			_a332 GRA
100	1		_aGraeber, David, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDebt : _bthe first 5,000 years / _cDavid Graeber.
246			_aDebt : _bthe first five thousand years /
250			_aUpdated and expanded edition.
260			_c[2014]
264		1	_aBrooklyn, NY : _bMelville House, _c[2014]
264		4	_c©2014.
300			_a542 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 463-500) and index.
505	0		_aOn 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)
520			_a"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 evidence to support it. Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that 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"--Publisher's description.
650		0	_aDebt _xHistory.
650		0	_aMoney _xHistory.
650		0	_aFinancial crises _xHistory.
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