TY - BOOK AU - Graeber, David TI - Debt : the first 5,000 years SN - 9781612191812 U1 - 332 GRA PY - 2012/// CY - Brooklyn PB - Melville House KW - Money - History KW - Financial crises - History KW - Debt - History N1 -

Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-453, [455]-492)and index.

; 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 contemporary civilization -- Credit versus bullion, and the cycles of history -- The axial age (800 BC - 600 AD) -- The middle ages (600 AD - 1450 AD) -- Age of the great capitalist empires (1450-1971) -- (1971- ) ER -