Debt

书名：DebtTheFirst5,000Years
作者：DavidGraeber
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ISBN：9781933633862
出版社：MelvilleHouse
出版时间：2011-7-12
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：544
豆瓣评分： 8.9

书籍简介：

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.

作者简介：

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。

书友短评：

@ 大脚 History of money. 第一次读到对经济学这一学科的有力批评，之前读到的多是源于作者对经济学本身的误解。这本简直是对经济学挖祖坟式的批判，拨云见日一般：1. There’s no evidence that there ever was a barter economy. 2. Money didn’t emerge from “a barter economy”.如果不是为了交易方便 （根本就没有过以物易物的经济），那么金钱为什么会出现呢？原来是为了婚姻交易，或者为了息事宁人，”to pay”这个词就源自”to pacify, appease”. “they are mainly used to rearrange relations between people.” @ Answer Lu Didactic @ 左岸单行道 Audible 5.11. 有意思 值得再读

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