Debt: The First 5,000 Years Kitap pdf indir

David Rolfe Graeber, Londra merkezli bir antropolog ve anarşist aktivist, belki de en çok 2011 tarihli Borç: İlk 5000 Yıl kitabıyla tanınır. London School of Economics'te Antropoloji Profesörü. 1998-2007 yılları arasında Yale'de yardımcı doçent ve antropoloji doçenti olarak değer ve sosyal teori teorilerinde uzmanlaştı. Üniversitenin, aksi takdirde göreve hak kazanacakken onu yeniden işe almama kararı, akademik bir tartışmaya ve 4.500'den fazla imzalı bir dilekçeye yol açtı. 2007-13 yılları arasında Londra Üniversitesi Goldsmiths'te Sosyal Antropoloji Okuyucusu oldu. Aktivizmi, 2001'de Quebec City'deki 3. Amerikalar Zirvesi'ne ve New York City'deki 2002 Dünya Ekonomik Forumu'na karşı protestoları içeriyor. Graeber, Wall Street'i İşgal Et hareketinin önde gelen isimlerinden biriydi ve bazen "Biz yüzde 99'uz" sloganını icat etmesiyle tanınır.

Debt: The First 5,000 Years kitap pdf oku ve indir David Graeber

Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred of evidence to support it. Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it. Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a fascinating chronicle of this little known history—as well as how it has defined human history, and what it means for the credit crisis of the present day and the future of our economy.