Debt: the first month of 5000

Debt: The first 5000
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Author: David greber
Press: CITIC Press
ISBN: 9787508635545
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Published on: February 1, October 2012
Start: 16
Page number: 420
Version: 1-1
Category: Economic Management

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Introduction
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Although debt is the foundation of modern economies, debt has been an inadequate concept in the history of economic thoughts. All economic books believe that the emergence of currency replaces the complex exchange of things, making human life more convenient. The problem with this concept is that there is no evidence to support it.
By challenging the traditional economic theory, the author believes that currency is not in the form of a replacement of thing exchange. It was originally in the form of a measurement scale and an abstract thing, it also appears as a relationship between humans (debt and obligation. Before 5000, humans were already using a complex credit system, not just exchange things for goods trading. The existence of the credit system is much earlier than that of coins and currencies. In his book, he pointed out that in the age of no currency, people are not "easy to sell". They give gifts to each other, sometimes in the form of tribute, and sometimes get a rebate later, sometimes it is a pure gift. The emergence of currencies was not intended to facilitate transactions, but was created by the priests of ancient countries such as Egypt or sumel to collect taxes or calculate wealth more effectively. The concept of price and indifference of the market emerged. They swallowed up all the warmth of human society. It is money that turns responsibility and obligation into debt. The common sense of debt and debt repayment has eroded the nature of mutual care. Greber believes that once we understand the social origins of debt, we will be happy to negotiate the debt issue again when conditions change, whether it is a mortgage loan, credit card debt, student loan, or the debt of the whole country.
At the end of the book, greber prescribed a "prescription" to exempt all international and consumer debt. "This will work, because it not only can fight to eliminate people's practical suffering, but also reminds people that money is not a panacea, debt repayment is not the core of morality, and all this is a man-made arrangement.
Target Audience: scholars and students in the economics field, and financial practitioners.
Directory
Debt: The first 5000
Chapter 1: Experience of obfuscation Morality
Chapter 2: The Fallacy of things
Chapter 3: initial debt
Chapter 4: Violence and salvation
Chapter 5: moral foundation in Economic Relations
Chapter 6: Sex and death games
Chapter 7: downgrade of honors and honors, or based on contemporary civilization
Chapter 8: Comparison between credit currency and gold and silver currency and the historical cycle of currency
Chapter 9: Axis Age (800 BC-600 AD)
Chapter 10: The Middle Ages (600 AD-1450)
Chapter 2: Age of great capitalism (11th-1450)
Chapter 2: (12th-∞)

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