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020			_a9781612194190
100			_aGraeber, David _96909
245		0	_aDebt: The First 5,000 Years/ _cDavid Graeber
260			_bMelville House; _c2014
300			_a560p; _c21x14cm
520			_aBefore 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.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aDebt _96910
650			_aDebt forgiveness _96911
650			_aHB501 Economic theory. Capitalism _96912
942			_cBK
999			_c4848 _d4848