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An edition of Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011)

Debt

The First 5,000 Years

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Debts are something that are very popular all around the world and money means a lot to the world. Currently they are still in this world and they won’t disappear because they mean a lot to our financial system. In this book you will find a history of debts, how they were created and how they continue in our world.

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Melville House
Language
English
Pages
534

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Money, Debt, Financial crises, History, Financial crisis, Money, history, Pengar, Penningväsen, Finanskriser, Historia, Debt--history, Money--history, Financial crises--history, Hg3701 .g73 2014, 332, Nonfiction, Economics, Business & Economics

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Table of Contents

1. On The Experience of Moral Confusion
Page 1
2. The Myth of Barter
Page 21
3. Primordial Debts
Page 43
4. Cruelty and Redemption
Page 73
5. A Brief Treatsie on the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations
Page 89
6. Games with Sex and Death
Page 127
7. Honor and Degradation, or, On the Foundations of Contemporary Civilization
Page 165
8. Credit Versus Bullion, And the Cycles of History
Page 211
9. The Axial Age (800 BC-600 AD)
Page 223
10. The Middle Ages (600 AD-1450 AD)
Page 251
11. Age of the Great Capitalist Empires (1450-1971)
Page 307
12. (1971-The Beginning of Something Yet to Be Determined)
Page 361
Notes
Page 393
Bibliography
Page 455
Index
Page 493

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Published in
Brooklyn, New York, USA

Classifications

Library of Congress
HG3701 .G73 2011, HG231, HG3701 .G73 2014, HG3701 .G73 2010
lccn_permalink
https://lccn.loc.gov/2010044508

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
534p.
Number of pages
534
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters
Weight
780 grams

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24088724M
ISBN 10
1933633867
ISBN 13
9781933633862
LCCN
2010044508, 2013497354
OCLC/WorldCat
426794447, 894149432, 742003259
LibraryThing
9530527
Goodreads
6617037

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL14909099W
Wikidata
Q1304168
BookBrainz
165d5b85-2fa8-47e5-9ba3-7b65200edf95
LibraryThing
9530527

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The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans have lived in societies divided into debtors and creditors. For 5,000 years debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates, laws and religions. The words “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption” come from ancient debates about debt. These terms and the ideas of debt shape our most basic ideas of right and wrong. source

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