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DAVID GRAEBER - GEBRAUCHT DEBT - UPDATED AND EX...

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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