Debt
Author: Graeber, David
ISBN: 9781612194196
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 02 Feb 2015
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback / softback
A revised and updated edition of the international bestseller, to be launched with major advertising push -- just months before the launch of GraeberP#39;s new book with Melville House
Plt;bPgt;Now more relevant than ever, the groundbreaking international best-seller turns everything you think about money, debt, and society on its headP#8212;from the P#8220;brilliant, deeply original political thinkerP#8221; David Graeber (Rebecca Solnit, author of Plt;iPgt;Men Explain Things to MePlt;/iPgt;)Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;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 goodsP#8212;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 creditorsP#8212;which lives on in full force to this day.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;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 P#8220;guilt,P#8221; P#8220;sin,P#8221; and P#8220;redemptionP#8221;) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;We are still fighting these battles today.
ISBN: 9781612194196
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 02 Feb 2015
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback / softback
A revised and updated edition of the international bestseller, to be launched with major advertising push -- just months before the launch of GraeberP#39;s new book with Melville House
Plt;bPgt;Now more relevant than ever, the groundbreaking international best-seller turns everything you think about money, debt, and society on its headP#8212;from the P#8220;brilliant, deeply original political thinkerP#8221; David Graeber (Rebecca Solnit, author of Plt;iPgt;Men Explain Things to MePlt;/iPgt;)Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;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 goodsP#8212;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 creditorsP#8212;which lives on in full force to this day.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;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 P#8220;guilt,P#8221; P#8220;sin,P#8221; and P#8220;redemptionP#8221;) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;We are still fighting these battles today.
