图书标签: 人类学 经济 金融 社会学 anthropology 经济史 money DavidGraeber(1961-)
发表于2024-12-22
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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.
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。
用这书内容来理解希腊问题,比较刺激。不适合右派阅读,读得下去,也不好作右派了。关于货币的起源,真是颠覆经济学教科书的论述啊。照作者看法,经济学真像是宗教,而非学问了。最后一章前半截,决定中文版的出版。
评分profound
评分弃了,看到作者说债本来也不是必须要还得就wiki了下作者,还参加过occupy。。。
评分弃了,看到作者说债本来也不是必须要还得就wiki了下作者,还参加过occupy。。。
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
- 记录债务的信用体系发生在货币以前,货币是为方便转移债务而发明。以物换物只发生在陌生人之间。 - 金银是战争的同谋,而不是和平的附属。 - 按照虚拟货币和金属货币的交易为依据,把欧亚史分为第一农耕帝国时代(前3500-前800,庙宇里的贵金属是国家系统的基石,陶片记债法...
评分一般古典经济学家认为人类货币的起源,始自"以物易物"、"货币交易"与"信用借偿"的自然过程,但作者试图以人类学的研究成果,推翻古典经济学缺乏论证的主张。通过历史回顾,David Graeber认为货币的起源应该倒反过来,是"信用借偿"、"货币交易",最后才是"以物易物"。此主张与古...
评分最早見到這本書是對岸中信出的版本,當時書名就叫做《債》,還蠻引人好奇的,但先不論譯筆,光是看到後面的注釋全部都用英文原版影印的偷懶步驟,就瞬間滅火了。商周這次推出,本以為是買版權,不過看了譯者後才發現猜錯了。翻了幾頁覺得不錯就帶回家了。 作者大衛‧格雷伯...
评分本书作者大卫·格雷伯是美国著名的无政府主义人类学家,是“占领华尔街”运动的组织者。 作者通过梳理纵横5000年的人类历史, 阐述了一个看似简单实者重要而复杂的名词:债! 本书直接颠覆了主流经济学理论的货币概念,剑指经济学创立之鼻祖亚当·斯密。 在阅读的过程中,虽然...
评分最早見到這本書是對岸中信出的版本,當時書名就叫做《債》,還蠻引人好奇的,但先不論譯筆,光是看到後面的注釋全部都用英文原版影印的偷懶步驟,就瞬間滅火了。商周這次推出,本以為是買版權,不過看了譯者後才發現猜錯了。翻了幾頁覺得不錯就帶回家了。 作者大衛‧格雷伯...
Debt pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024