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Debt : the first 5,000 years

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Summary
"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... Read more
Contents
On the experience of moral confusion -- The myth of barter -- Primordial debts -- Cruelty and redemption -- A brief treatise on the moral grounds of economic relations -- Games with sex and death -- Honor and degradation, or, on the foundations of... Read more
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542 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher
Melville House 2014

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 332 GRA in Adult Non-fiction Reshelving

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