Debt the first 5,000 years
David Graeber
- Brooklyn Melville house 2014
- 542 páginas ilustraciones
On the experience of moral confusion. -- myth of barter. -- Primordial debts. -- Cruelty and redemption. -- 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. -- axial age (800 BC. -- 600 AD). -- Middle Ages (600AD. -- 145o AD). -- Age of the great capitalist empires (1450-1971). -- beginning of something yet to be determined (1971-Present). The A The The The
"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".
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Gobierno universitario
Playbok - Nuestros pilares de transformación
Protocolo de seguridad
Archivo histórico
Escuela de administración
Facultad de Jurisprudencia
Facultad de Ciencias
Escuela de Ciencias
Escuela de Medicina
Facultad de Economía
Facultad de Estudios
Facultad de Creación
Escuela de Ingeniería,
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