Debtepub,mobi,azw3格式电子书下载，作者：David Graeber-读书派

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。

一缶堂

2022-11-27

这些所谓的左翼学者永远都在发现问题却永远无法解决问题这就是左翼学者不招成年人喜欢的原因也是他们受傻小子们欢迎的原因

2022-06-23

这文风真飘。看了后序才知道Graeber的偶像是Mauss，这文风是学到了。

Kevin Lee

2021-12-18

大卫·格雷伯在《债：第一个5000年》一书中指出，一些人的收入相对于消费需求或消费意愿存在短期或永久性不足，以高息向他们提供贷款往往是让他们沦为赤贫的罪魁祸首。——《债务和魔鬼》为什么经济学家要一再重复货币起源的错误？因为以物易物的货币起源说是经济学的基石之一，这样才没必要在经济学研究中考虑人的问题，他们不会将人与人之间的爱、恨等复杂的感情关系和社会关系带入到经济学研究中，可事实上这些东西才界定了我们人类的生活。

颂_you

2021-07-16

In the secular world, morality consists largely of fulfilling our obligations to others, and we have a stubborn tendency to imagine those obligations as debts.

either shunt off responsibility onto some third party, or insist that the borrower is even worse.

For the "vanquished" as for most people in the world, actually-the most significant life expenses were weddings and funerals. These required a good deal of money, which always had to be borrowed. （9）

Debt

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