Name: Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years
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Author: David Graeber
ISBN: 9781612194196

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Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years

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Physical Book

Author

David Graeber

Publisher

Melville House Publishing

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

560

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 14.2 x 4.1 cm

Weight

0.52 kg.

ISBN13

9781612194196

Synopsis "Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years "

The groundbreaking international best-seller that 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.

David Graeber

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David Graeber (1961-2020) was an American anthropologist, writer, and activist, known for his studies on anarchism, economics, and political anthropology. He was a professor at the London School of Economics and a key figure in the Occupy Wall Street movement. His works have influenced debates on labor, debt, and social organization, establishing him as a critical thinker of capitalism and power structures.

Among his most notable books are Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011), where he examines the history of debt as an economic and social institution, Bullshit Jobs (2018), a critique of the uselessness of certain modern jobs, and The Dawn of Everything (2021), co-written with David Wengrow, which rethinks the history of humanity from an anthropological perspective.

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Fernando Hernández Sunday, September 12, 2021
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One of the best and accesible books in the field, highly recommended
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Constanza Castillo Friday, October 29, 2021
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Portada de mejor apariencia y por la mitad del precio de la edición en español, envío rápido dentro del plazo, pero llegó con una esquina doblada.
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