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Before there was money, there was debt
Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred of evidence to support it.
Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that 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.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a fascinating chronicle of this little known history—as well as how it has defined human history, and what it means for the credit crisis of the present day and the future of our economy.
作者简介
美国著名人类学家和无政府主义者，伦敦大学戈德史密斯学院高级讲师。他曾为《哈珀斯》、《国家》、Mute杂志、《新左派评论》等国家媒体供稿。大卫•格雷伯是伦敦经济学院2006年度马林诺夫斯基纪念讲座主讲人。该讲座为向重塑研究文化的杰出人类学家致敬而设，每年举办一次。
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评分 评分一切皆因信貸和債務 (文匯﹕2013年5月6日) 作者：大衛．格雷伯 譯者：董子雲、孫碳 出版：中信出版社（2012年11月） 阿當．斯密在《國富論》中指出經濟活動起源於「以物易物」及其衍生的交易行為，而貨幣則作為量度中介而出現，大家將這說法奉若圭臬，然而這不過建基於17...
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For the non-industrious poor
评分erudite,profund,subversive and liberating.
评分从人类学和社会学角度写的经济著作 荣誉与荣誉降级那章挺有意思的
评分有点意思，从debt&credit的角度来看人类经济活动，认不认同另当别论。但作者有一个观点比较颠覆：没有足够证据证明严格意义上的以物易物在人类历史上普遍存在过，所以不能作为一个整体意义上的阶段性经济活动，新时代占星学又扯淡了
评分David还是很牛逼的，不过在一定程度上，他自己的政治立场会让他写的东西略微有些极端，但个人觉得分析很在理。
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