Debt - Updated and Expanded
The First 5,000 Years
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Narrated by:
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Grover Gardner
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By:
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David Graeber
About this listen
Now in audio, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber's "fresh...fascinating...thought-provoking...and exceedingly timely" (Financial Times) history of debt.
Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that 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, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to 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 without knowing it.
©2014 David Graeber (P)2015 Gildan Media LLCCritic Reviews
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- Jason Koch
- 19-12-2017
Great first half, let down by the second
First half is a compelling history full of anecdotes.
The second half becomes a only somewhat coherent collection of the authors ideas of what is wrong with the world and how we should change it.
Read it for the first half.
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- Joseph Di Stefano
- 18-11-2021
enthralling
we have all heard the way that money and debt have been bound together . David brings a new spin to the process.
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- Tampil
- 23-09-2022
I wish I had found this when as soon as it was published
A complete recount of debt, money, and coinage. Ahah. It’s the same thing from different angle. Well, I forgot about credit.
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- Katie Batty
- 16-03-2016
important book
challenges so many taken for granted assumptions using lots of interesting examples - highly recommend this one!
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- Anonymous User
- 25-05-2024
Circling the Sun
A Human is no different to a dog chasing its tail. Civilisations come and go, nothing stays the same yet nothing changes. The earth will crash into the sun and there’s nothing anyone can do to prevent it. Fantastic book.
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- Jack Fleming
- 12-05-2018
Money a history from someone who isn't an econ
I found this an interesting, money, credit and debt are always examined through the lens of economics. So in that regard it was quite refreshing to hear about these concepts from a different perspective. However I personally found the argument unpersuasive. however I would still recommend this book for those who are interested in economics as it's an alternative view point that is well articulated and is at the very least an interesting narrative.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-09-2021
Essential
Essential to humanity yesterday today and tomorrow share share share share share share share share
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- Jordan
- 28-10-2016
Read it. Just do it.
Read the book. Listen to it, then read it, then give it to a friend, then read it again.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-01-2021
Grover Gardner; wow
Something about this mans voice is very enticing he could read me how to set fire to the sun and I would believe it all to factual and accurate.
The book in itself just makes it very clear how fucked our worlds economy is and I can’t wait for the fall and the post apocalypse world.
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- chris
- 20-10-2019
Very long, hard but worth it in the end
Very long, plenty of big words and easy to tune out in. Stick with it, trust me, it's worth it.
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