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Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter system--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... read more
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Setting & Locations edit
- China
- Western Europe
- Indian Ocean
- United States
- Islam
- Mesopotamia
- England
- France
- Africa
- Rome
- Greece
- Egypt
- London
- Middle Ages
- Middle East
- America
- Madagascar
- Ireland
- Athens
- Japan
- Britain
- Babylon
- Calabar
- Southeast Asia
- Russia
- Atlantic
- Germany
- Italy
- Kautilya
- Venice
- Korea
- Seaford
- Mexico
- Miletus
- Sumer
- Eurasia
- Virginia
- Sindbad
- Poland
- Nambikwara
- Gunwinggu
First Sentence edit
Two years ago, by a series of strange coincidences, I found myself attending a garden party at Westminster Abbey.
Table of Contents edit
1. On the Experience of Moral Confusion
2. The Myth of Barter
3. Primordial Debts
4. Cruelty and Redemption
5. A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations
6. Games with Sex and Death
7. Honor and Degradation, or, On the Foundations of Contemporary Civilization
8. Credit Versus Bullion, And the Cycles of History
9. The Axial Age (800 BC - 600 AD)
10. The Middle Ages (600 AD - 1450 AD)
11. Age of the Great Capitalist Empires (1450 - 1971)
12. (1971 - The Beginning of Something Yet to Be Determined)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- David Graeber (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 330
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- delanceyplace.com 9/20/11 - barter economies versus credit economies: Excerpt from the book.
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