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An edition of Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011)

Debt

The first 5,000 years

Updated and expanded edition

by

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  • 36 Ratings
  • 220 Want to read
  • 17 Currently reading
  • 50 Have read

The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans have lived in societies divided into debtors and creditors. For 5,000 years debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates, laws and religions. The words “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption” come from ancient debates about debt. These terms and the ideas of debt shape our most basic ideas of right and wrong. source

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Money, Debt, Financial crises, History, Financial crisis, Money, history, Pengar, Penningväsen, Finanskriser, Historia, Debt--history, Money--history, Financial crises--history, Hg3701 .g73 2014, 332

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First Sentence

"TWO YEARS AGO, by a series of strange coincidences, I found myself attending a garden party at Westminster Abbey."

Table of Contents

1. On the Experience of Moral Confusion
2. The Myth of Barter
3. Primordial Debts
4. Cruelty and Redemption
5. A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations
6. Games with Sex and Death
7. Honor and Degradation, or, On the Foundations of Contemporary Civilization
8. Credit Versus Bullion, And the Cycles of History
9. The Axial Age (800 BC–600 AD)
10. The Middle Ages (600 AD–1450 AD)
11. Age of the Great Capitalist Empires (1450–1971)
12. The Beginning of Something Yet to Be Determined (1971–present)
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2011, 2012, 2014

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OL32062894M
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9781612194202
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