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

Now more relevant than ever  the groundbreaking international best-seller 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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