Debt : the first 5,000 years / David Graeber.

Author/creator Graeber, David
Format Book
Publication InfoBrooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, ©2011.
Description534 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Debt--History.
Money--History.
Financial crises--History.

Contents On the experience of moral confusion -- The myth of barter -- Primordial debts -- Cruelty and redemption -- A 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 -- The axial age (800 BC-600 AD) -- The middle ages (600 AD-1450 AD) -- Age of the great capitalist empires (1450-1971) -- (1971 : the beginning of something yet to be determined).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010044508
ISBN9781933633862 (alk. paper)
ISBN1933633867 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HG3701 .G73 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold