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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber · 2011 · Melville House
An anthropological history arguing that credit preceded coinage, and that debt is a moral language before it is an economic one.
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“The very fact that we don't know what debt is, the very flexibility of the concept, is the basis of its power.”
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Does economic growth always improve quality of life?
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Raised by Ouattara Bamadou14 May 20263 sources
Added to the library 12 Jan 2026.