: the first 5,000 years Graeber, David creator Graeber, David text New .York ;Penguin Books @2011 monographic eng

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534p : illustrations ; 24 cm 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. 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- ). / David Graeber Economics Financial economics Debt -- History Money -- History Financial crises -- History Monnaie -- Histoire Financial crises -- History 332 GRA 9780143422716 :Zafaa Books & Distributors :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035 220629 20220629110012.0