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Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years - Couverture souple

Graeber, David

 
9781612194196: Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1612194192 ISBN 13 : 9781612194196
Editeur : Melville House, 2014

Synopsis

The groundbreaking international best-seller that turns everything you think about money, debt, and society on its head—from the “brilliant, deeply original political thinker” David Graeber (Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me)
 
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 that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors—which lives on in full force to this day.

So says anthropologist David Graeber in a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Renaissance Italy to Imperial 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Graeber (1961-2020) was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. One of the original organizers of Occupy Wall Street, Graeber was also the author of Utopia of Rules and wrote widely for publications such as The Guardian, Harper’s, The Baffler, n+1, The Nation, The New Inquiry, and The New Left Review.

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Éditeur
Melville House
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1612194192
ISBN 13 
9781612194196
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
560
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