
Debt - Updated and Expanded
The First 5,000 Years
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Narrated by:
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Grover Gardner
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By:
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David Graeber
About this listen
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 LLCCritic Reviews
enthralling
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I wish I had found this when as soon as it was published
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The second half becomes a only somewhat coherent collection of the authors ideas of what is wrong with the world and how we should change it.
Read it for the first half.
Great first half, let down by the second
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important book
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Circling the Sun
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Money a history from someone who isn't an econ
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Essential
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Read it. Just do it.
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The book in itself just makes it very clear how fucked our worlds economy is and I can’t wait for the fall and the post apocalypse world.
Grover Gardner; wow
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Very long, hard but worth it in the end
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