En deuda: una historia alternativa de la economía

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Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2012 All economics book makes the same assertion: Money was invented to solve increasingly complex barter systems. This version of the story has a serious problem, there is no evidence to support it. Graeber presents an alternative to the emergence of money and markets history, and analyzes how the debt has gone from being a financial obligation to a moral obligation. Since the beginning of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods, even before the invention of coins. It is today, after 5000 years, when first we have a society divided between debtors and creditors, institutions erected with the sole desire to protect lenders. In debt is a fascinating and relevant chronic coming to disassemble embedded ideas into our collective consciousness and overcome ...