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41 lines
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**Debt: The First 5000 Years** is a 2011
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[book](List_of_Libertarian_Socialist_Books "wikilink") by [David
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Graeber](David_Graeber "wikilink") which explores the historical
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relationship of debt with social institutions such as barter, marriage,
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friendship, slavery, law, religion, war and government; in short, much
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of the fabric of human life in society. It draws on the history and
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anthropology of a number of civilizations, large and small, from the
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first known records of debt from [Sumer](Sumer "wikilink") in 3500 BC
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until the present.
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## Summary
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### On The Experience of Moral Confusion
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### The Myth of Barter
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### Primordial Debts
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### Cruelty and Redemption
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### A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations
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### Games with Sex and Death
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### Honor and Degradation, or, On the Foundations of Contemporary Civilization
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### Credit Versus Bullion, And the Cycles of History
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### The Axial Age (800BC-600AD)
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### The Middle Ages (600AD-1450AD)
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### Age of the Great Capitalist Empires (1450-1971)
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### (1971-The Beginning of Something Yet to be Determined)
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## External Links
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- [Debt: The First 5000
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Years](https://libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf)
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at libcom.org |