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Author Graeber, David.

Title Debt : the first 5,000 years / David Graeber
Published Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, [2011]
©2011

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Description 534 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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 Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Debt -- History.
Money -- History.
Financial crises -- History.
LC no. 2010044508
ISBN 9781933633862 (alk. paper)
1933633867 (alk. paper)