Description
A sweeping history of debt, money, and human obligation, this book challenges the conventional story that barter came before currency and credit. Drawing on anthropology, economics, history, and philosophy, it traces how systems of debt have shaped relationships, institutions, empires, and ideas of morality across thousands of years. It examines the uneasy connections between financial exchange and power, asking who gets to define what is owed—and what happens when debts become impossible or unjust to repay. Provocative and richly researched, the work offers a fresh framework for understanding both ancient economies and the financial crises of the modern world.
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Published Jan 1, 2011
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First Published
2011
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Debt by David Graeber.