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The First 5,000 Years

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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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Subjects

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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Debito: i primi 5000 anni
2012, Il saggiatore
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
2011-05, Melville House
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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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Brooklyn, New York, USA

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HG3701 .G73 2011, HG231, HG3701 .G73 2014, HG3701 .G73 2010
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https://lccn.loc.gov/2010044508

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

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9781933633862
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2010044508, 2013497354
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426794447, 894149432, 742003259
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9530527
Goodreads
6617037

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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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