01740nam a22002897a 4500 20220629110012.0 220629b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780143422716 :Zafaa Books & Distributors :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035 :ZBD0277 :25/06/2022 332 GRA Graeber, David Debt : the first 5,000 years / David Graeber New .York ;Penguin Books @2011. 534p : illustrations ; 24 cm 550 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- ). Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a 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. Economics Financial economics Debt -- History. Money -- History. Financial crises -- History. Monnaie -- Histoire. Financial crises -- History. Graeber, David BOOK 59442 59442 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2022-06-29 Zafaa Books & Distributors 550.00 0 332 GRA 28782 2022-06-29 00:00:00 2022-06-29 BOOK