We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it. 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.
The program is based on his book Debt: The. 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. In this radio program, the anthropologist David Graeber, explores the history of debt in (currently) 12 episodes. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. It is worth reading as a history of debt, credit, and money. 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. David Graeber’s Debt, The First 5,000 Years, is an interesting and thought-provoking book. Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. and exceedingly timely" ( Financial Times) history of debt
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